Word: moffit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margaret has been beaten since-but only by herself. "Nerves," the experts called it when she lost to the U.S.'s Billie Jean Moffit at Wimbledon last year, after winning the Australian, French and Italian titles and going undefeated for ten months. Losing at Wimbledon, Margaret says, was "the biggest disappointment of my life. I let a lot of people down." She made up for that defeat by besting Billie Jean in straight sets in this year's Wimbledon final, running out the last game in typical slash-and-smash Smith fashion: two booming sideline forehands, a perfectly...
Impudent Elf. The week was a fine one all round for the U.S., whose amateur tennis fortunes have sunk abysmally low in recent years. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffit, 19, an impudent elf from California, trounced Australia's No. 2-seeded Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next...