Word: talbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advanced tennis age of 26, Patty suddenly seemed to have turned serious about the game. Seven weeks ago, chain-smoking Patty gave up cigarettes, began to shrug off invitations to Paris nightclubs. Last month he won the French singles championship, defeating the No. 2 U.S. player, Billy Talbert, and the self-exiled Czech, Jaroslav Drobny, in five-set grinds...
...Great tennis players have one indefinable quality in common," said U.S. Tennistar Bill Talbert. "I call it 'x.' I haven't got it myself. But Budge had it. Vines had it. And so did Perry and the other greats." Whatever "x" is, the quality was sadly lacking at Wimbledon last week, as the All-England tennis championships got under...
...seems likely ever to reach the stature of a Budge or a Vines. Sedgman plays today's "big" game of constant attack. Best of the Americans (in the absence of Ted Schroeder, who is too busy with his refrigeration business to defend his title this year) is Billy Talbert himself, past his prime at 31 and a diabetic. Third and fourth seeded are Jaroslav Drobny, the self-exiled Czech with a singing serve which subsides to a whisper in an endurance match, and South African Eric Sturgess, a solid, stolid player of the old base-line school...
Next day it looked as though Veteran Talbert was unduly pessimistic about the youngsters. Stepping onto the boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he ran into 25-year-old Fred Kovaleski of Hamtramck, Mich., who promptly dumped Talbert out of the running...
...tennis still had something left. In the finals, 31-year-old Don McNeill, who last won the indoor title twelve years ago, downed Kovaleski in four sets. Then he teamed up with Billy Talbert to take the doubles title in three straight sets...