Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nationals at Forest Hills later this summer could earn him the second tennis grand slam in history (the other: Don Budge in 1938) and a fat pro contract.
FOR SALE: Playwright and screen star's hideout. 7 rooms, 3 baths, swimming pool, tennis court, terrace, two-car garage, small studio. 4 acres. $29,500 ($38,500 with 26 acres).
Out on the trim, worn turf of the center court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Philadelphia's handsome, aging (32) Vic Seixas (rhymes with gracious) blew a handsome lead. For most of five sets the crowd got some thrilling tennis. Then Seixas' styleless but...
Even the women upset the pre-tournament odds. Riding high after winning 14 consecutive championships, New York's leggy Althea Gibson (TIME, June 4) succumbed to center-court jitters and was beaten in the quarter-finals by top-ranking U.S. Amateur Singles Star Shirley Fry. Althea took the defeat...
Young Lew wasted little time, tried from the opening rally to rub his superior power like rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6...