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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...
Concerning the technique of Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their...
...Richards had made a stand, if he had put out the sad-eyed Lacoste, the bounding Borotra, he might have become a national figure comparable to Ethan Allen, Commodore Perry or Red Grange. But the momentum of the French was too great; thinking of Tilden's fall, of Johnston's failure, of Williams' calamity, how could he survive alone? So it was Rene Lacoste who faced Jean Borotra in the final...
...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...