Word: quist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...
...alienation of affections, Kovacs was no great shakes in his first tour of the big-time circuit. Last summer, bothered by a tennis elbow, he did not compete in the important Eastern tournaments, but in the late-season Pacific Coast championship he outplayed Australia's top-ranking Adrian Quist and Yugoslavia's top-ranking Franjo Puncec before bowing to Bobby Riggs in the final...