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Four seeded players reached the semi-finals-Wilmer Allison of Texas, Clifford Sutter of New Orleans, Ellsworth Vines of California, and Doeg. Doeg, slamming his left-handed serve into court in the way which enabled him to beat Tilden and Frank Shields in the National last year, disposed of Sutter 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Vines, who was the sensation of the early tournaments last summer, beat Allison, who made his sensation four years ago, 7-5, 6-3. 6-4. Against Vines, Doeg, still serving well and winning his share of the back court rallies with...
...sorts: those who teach tennis and those who exhibit themselves for a living. The latter class, mostly onetime amateurs, has multiplied recently. Still numerically small, it contains all the best players, since patting soft shots at novices spoils the teachers for high-grade competition. In it are William Tatem Tilden II; his good friend Frank Hunter; Vincent Richards, onetime Tilden protégé; Howard Kinsey. Californian cut-stroker; Emmett Pare, youngest member of Tilden Tennis Tours, Inc.: and Karel Kozeluh, who was supposed to be best player in the world till Tilden beat him 33 out of 37 matches...
Teaching professionals were quickly eliminated from the U. S. Professional Championship at Forest Hills last week. In the best quarter-final match, Karel Kozeluh, who considered himself disgraced by Tilden's beatings and said he would never return to the U. S. unless he won the tournament, defeated Francis Hunter in four sets. Howard Kinsey beat Albert Burke, able Irish professional attached to the Deauville Sporting Club in France and rated as Europe's second best pro. In the semifinals, four "playing professionals" proceeded to eliminate each other in a manner that was almost a foregone conclusion...
...Tilden's own newspaper accounts of the matches were revealing. Excerpts: "It was greater severity, both off the ground and at the net, that beat Kinsey. . . . He lacked the punch to hold me off. . . . His lack of power was due to his long battle with Albert Burke. ... I was at my best and have seldom hit with greater accuracy and severity combined...
Wrote Champion Tilden of the match in which he defeated Richards 7-5, 6-2, 6-1, after winning five of the last six games in the first set: "I have never played better tennis than in the singles against Richards. . . . Once I reached even terms I was always in command. . . . I believe . . . my crosscourt forehand to deep court . . . was most effective. . . . Richards had two bad falls, one at 0-5 in the last set. which injured his right leg . . . probably too late to affect the result...