Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One afternoon in the summer of 1955, officials of the U.S.L.T.A. told Althea that the State Department had asked them to nominate some players to tour Southeast Asia; they wanted her to go. Althea hesitated ("I had to get on my knees to persuade her," says a friend), finally accepted...
Off to Asia. So Althea went out to the West Side Tennis Club in the summer of 1950 and made history by almost upsetting Louise Brough. She went home a loser, and spent the next few summers as an unspectacular but familiar figure at assorted tournaments around the U.S. and...
Ruthless Geometry. Back home after her victory in Paris and her quarter-final defeat at Wimbledon, Althea made a disappointing showing at Forest Hills, but she was sure by then that she would stick with tennis. She continued to work steadily with a new coach, Sydney Llewellyn, a Negro pro...
The Best Ever. It is doubtful that the new Althea will ever again be in the same kind of emotional pressure cabin. In Chicago last month, when she turned up for the national Clay Courts championship, hotels in stuffy Oak Park would not rent her a room; the swank Pump...
Playing to please herself, just how good is Althea? Fortnight ago she led the U.S. team to an easy Wightman Cup victory (TIME, Aug. 19); last week she did beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet...