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With the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia, the remaining sixteen top men in the country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...
Died. Thomas ("Tom") Pettitt, 86, British-born, mustachioed grand old man of court tennis; in Newport, R. I. A onetime locker-boy for the first U.S. court-tennis court (in Boston), he taught himself the ancient, highly specialized game (played in large, complicated, enclosed courts, with pear-shaped racquets and complex rules), revolutionized classic court style with his smashing drives ("When I get a fair sight of the ball, I hit it, and I hit it damned hard"). Tom Pettitt made both court-tennis history and legend, in his heyday was reputed to have defeated many an opponent while using...
Among Coach Bob Ashley's racquet stars are Bill Wightman, Edus Warren and Bill Mayleas, returning lettermen, and Travis Gresham, Fred Flickenger and Bob Dolloff, holders of numerals. With promising new court performers, they have been working out for some three weeks in preparation for tomorrow's season opener...
Consuelo Vanderbilt Warburton, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and granddaughter of the late Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, flew into Reno to have it done again. Her third ex-husband would be Commander William John Warburton of Manhattan's Racquet & Tennis Club...
Eight war-rusty U.S. players and four Canadians paired off last week at Manhattan's swank Racquet & Tennis Club for the first National Doubles Championships since 1941. Everybody's footwork and timing was off. But prewar champion Bobby Grant was still one of the most paralyzing hitters the game had ever known. Teamed with Clarence Pell Jr., he whacked shots that nobody even saw until too late, won easily from Richard Leonard and Joe Brooks (see cut) in the finals...