Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joan Ridley, an English player but not a member of the Wightman Cup team, got as far as 3-a11 in the first set the next day, when a storm interrupted the matches and drenched 2,500 spectators. Mrs. Moody won the next nine games and the match...
...semifinals, the Moody adversary was Phyllis Mudford, smallest member of the British Wightman Cup team, who had beaten Sarah Palfrey of Boston in the third round. Wearing an eyeshade and an expression of appealing determination, she looked so eagerly incompetent that Mrs. Moody neglected to put customary pace on her shots after winning the first five games. Little Miss Mudford then played as tigerishly as she could, ran the score...
...finals, Mrs. Moody's opponent was Eileen Bennett Whittingstall. Before her marriage to Painter Edmund Fearnley Whittingstall, Eileen Bennett defeated Mrs. Molla Mallory in the 1928 Wightman Cup Matches. Still the prettiest and best-dressed of woman tennis players, her game has improved brilliantly this year. But while Mrs. Moody was sweeping through the upper half of the draw almost as easily as in 1929. Mrs. Whittingstall was having a hard time of it in the lower half. In the quarter-finals she played a great match against Helen Jacobs, considered second best woman player in the U.S. After...
...Dorothy C. Shepherd-Barron was captain; her civil-engineer husband accompanied the British Wightman Cup team as coach and chaperon. Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whittingstall, once the best woman tennis player in England, was still the prettiest. Dorothy Round and little Phyllis Mudford, whom no British player beat last year, had never played in the U. S. before. Betty Nuthall, plumper and more jolly than ever, was the team's No. i. They arrived in the U. S. three weeks ago, last week at Forest Hills lost the Wightman Cup to a U. S. team five matches...
...Helen Jacobs, wearing a transparent skirt and an intermittent frown, chopped and drove at Phyllis Mudford's weak backhand till she won, 6-4, 6-2. The match between Helen Moody and Betty Nuthall was nothing like the one they played in 1929, when Mrs. Moody decided the Wightman Cup series by winning 8-6, 8-6. Last week, they played more craftily, put less pace on their shots. Betty Nuthall won the first game at love, held her own till the seventh game when she made four double faults. This calamity broke the continuity of her game...