Word: tildenized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This moment embraced the four seconds required to play the fifth point of the ninth game of the fifth set of William Tatem Tilden's match against Henri Cochet of France. Tilden lost the point. He lost the match. He has lost other matches, but never one like this. Cochet, who had won the second and third sets and had a lead of 4-1 in the fifth, seemed sure to win when Tilden started his rally. He had Cochet 40-15. And then, his fire waned, the reserve which had never failed before failed...
...dawdled through the first set, managing to win it, 6-4, only because Lacoste obviously expected to be beaten and made errors. Lacoste's game has always irritated Tilden. It is a suave game, a soft-spoken game of placements that look easy because the man who reaches for them looks so awkward-of strokes that a hard-hitting player can kill only if he is very careful. Last year Lacoste reached match-point four times before Tilden beat him. The champion was teasing, people said; he gave away points to get an incentive...
...doing the same thing now? Lacoste had taken the second set; now, encouraged by the appearance of the grass stain, he took the third. Surely, that was all the incentive Tilden could ask for. ... He had his back, at last, where he liked to have it, against a metaphorical wall. Unfortunately, the grass-stain on his flannelings was not metaphorical; and he had-could one believe it?-a perfectly literal limp. He had hurt himself. That was the plain prose...
...back after the rest period he had a plain prose bandage on. He won the first and third games, lost the fourth and, after a heartbreaking struggle, the fifth. The sixth game of this fourth set was easy for Lacoste. And he had a lead in the seventh when Tilden started to play cannonball services. Placements boomed like round-shot. The gallery rocked and roared. Now he was off. He would keep on, he would snow the Frenchman under, he would...
...what famed tennis match last week was William Tilden beaten...