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...Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started a five-week tour of professional exhibition matches with William Tatem Tilden II and Ellsworth Vines...
...Bill" chats with a smoothness and correctness of speech seldom found among people of the sporting world. As one hears him discuss the masters of music and their newly acquired ideas of rhythm, which he uses to explain the tennis stroke, one can not help gaining the feeling that Tilden has travelled extensively and possesses wide information...
...Speaking of tennis," he continued, "every man has a blind spot. You may not believe it, but Johnston's was a low forehand drive which showed up when he became tired." A blind spot, as Tilden explains it, is a mechanical defect probably acquired when one is learning the game and is never corrected, however hard the player attempts to do so. The reporter asked him if he had a weak point in his game...
...principle of good tennis, Tilden believes the first rule is never give your opponent the shot he likes to play. As a rule in tennis, the man who depends upon headwork will defeat a man who plays by natural instinct alone. When his game is off, he has another resource to fall back upon, whereas the natural athlete...
Strangely enough, Tilden does not believe that a man must be at the peak of condition to get the best results. In fact, in his own case the records of his matches show that he has played better when he was not feeling well. As he explains it, he concentrates much better when he is not in the best of health, because he is attempting to finish the match as soon as possible...