Word: quist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australians were 3-to-1 favorites to regain the Cup they had lost in 1920. Ambidextrous, 20-year-old John Bromwich (Australia's top-ranking player) and stocky, 26-year-old Adrian K. Quist (Australia's No. 2) have been considered the world's best amateur tennists since California's Donald Budge turned professional last winter and Germany's Baron von Cramm retired to the sidelines...
...Parker-despite the fact that Riggs won the All-England championship at Wimbledon this year and Parker clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. two years ago -were considered the weakest Davis Cup players the U. S. had had in a generation. For the doubles-to face seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge in three previous Cup matches, had proved to be a chump with...
Riggs was expected to win one singles match last week-most likely against Quist, whom he had defeated in the Davis Cup Challenge Round last year. Beyond this lonely hope, few tennis experts expected much from the U. S. team. But at the end of the first day's matches, the experts realized that they had sold Riggs and Parker short...
...history of tennis. Long famed as a Giant Killer, Tumblebug Grant, who wears shorts to avoid wear & tear on his trouser knees, will be watched by the Davis Cup Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians who (unless they lose the Interzone final) will face the U. S. team in the Davis Cup challenge round at Philadelphia on September...
When, in the opening match of the series, cocky Robert Riggs turned himself into an exclamation point by beating seasoned Adrian Quist (4-6, 6-0, 8-6, 6-1), experts agreed that Australia had little chance of winning the Cup. Except for a brief shock the following day when the Australians took the doubles in a sensational reversal of form, the 9,000 spectators who filled the stands each day saw just what they had expected to see. Budge beat both Quist and Bromwich in routine fashion, clinched the series before the concluding match, lost by Riggs to Bromwich...