Word: ryn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas won the first set at f-$. but all he could do after that was to make Cochet run more and rally longer than he likes to before Cochet won. 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. In the doubles next day, Allison and his partner John Van Ryn won the first match for the U. S. against Cochet and Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon. but not until Brugnon and Cochet, playing Van Ryn's weak backhand, had evened the match twice. Score...
Even with von Cramm's victory over Shields, the first day's play left the U. S. in a commanding position because Germany has never been able to cook up a first-rate doubles team. If Wilmer Allison (Austin, Tex.) and John Van Ryn (East Orange, N. J.) could win their match against Prenn & von Cramm, all the U.S. needed was one more singles match and Vines was almost sure to get it against von Cramm. For the doubles, the Bouhana courts were slower than ever, after a heavy rain, but it made no difference to Allison & Van Ryn...
...week, persuaded jolly Jean Borotra to take his place. Borotra still insisted he was not good enough; there was a chance that young Christian Boussus might play one match at least. That left the doubles up to Cochet and Jacques Brugnon, who were fairly likely to lose to Van Ryn and Allison. If Cochet & Brugnon lost, the U. S. needed two singles matches out of four. Whether it would get them depended mostly on tall, ambling, white-capped, 20-year-old Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. who, since the summer of 1930, has played the world's most startling tennis...
...Wimbledon week, which lasts a fortnight all the British championships are played at the same time. In the women's singles Helen Wills reached the semi-finals comfortably, bracketted against Mme Rene Mathieu of France who had put out Betty Nuthall. Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn. U. S. Davis Cup doubles team, beat Dr. S. C. Gregory and Ian Collins to reach the quarter finals...
...Davis Cup team (Wilmer Allison, Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn): American interzone finals against Brazil, 5 matches to 0; at Forest Hills...