Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For the last two decades the center court at Wimbledon has seemed like the private preserve of two nations: the U.S. and Australia. But last week, in the 1959 championships, the two big powers took back seats to and got one very rude shock from a pair of Latin nations...
With polished grace, "The Chief" dispatched them both. He merely warmed up on Emerson. 6-4, 6-0, 6-4, in the semifinals. In the finals Olmedo cracked Laver's service in the very first game, artfully alternated his power game with contrapuntal lobs, and walked off. 6-4...
But on Wimbledon's sweltering center court, Maria kept her nerves under control. Not a flicker of emotion crossed her face as she slammed home crushing serves and front-court volleys to win 6-4, 6-3. Then Brazil's pretty brunette tennis queen sank her head into...
The annual summer school tennis tournament, a high point in past years' activities, will get under way next Monday at Soldiers Field. All summer school students and faculty are invited to enter any of the five divisions.
The closest 51-year-old William Nickerson gets to dirt these days is gardening at his spacious $75,000 estate at Alamo, Calif. After a quarter-century of pyramiding debts, he enjoys European travel, tennis, a dip in his swimming pool and telling his fellow-Americans how to make a...