Word: wightman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Demanding to know how the highly favored British women's tennis team could have suffered such a humiliating defeat (6-1 ) at the hands of the U.S. girls, the Daily Sketch called for an official investigation. Indeed, about the only Britons who gracefully accepted the loss of the Wightman Cup at Chicago last week were the losers. Said British Team Captain Beatrice Walter: "All in all, the Americans played better than I expected...
...American girls played better than anyone expected. Missing from the U.S. roster was No.1-ranked Darlene Hard, who was recovering from hepatitis. Pressed into service was veteran Margaret Osborne du Pont. 43. who had not played a Wightman Cup match in three years. The other U.S. girls-none over 18-looked raw and unpromising alongside such seasoned British stars as Wimbledon Champion Angela Mortimer, Runner-up Christine Truman, and French Champion Ann Haydon. What made the upset all the more upsetting was the 18-year-old who engineered it: a rangy (5 ft. 6 ½in., 125 Ibs.) brunette from...
...retrieving game. But last week, her accurate placements kicking up puffs of chalk along the baseline. Lefthander Bricka ran Angela Mortimer so hard that the British player suffered leg cramps and had to withdraw from the final doubles match. To sew up the crucial third set-which retrieved the Wightman Cup that the U.S. lost in 1960-unheralded Justina Bricka needed just 25 minutes...
...slugged it out, smashing serves with unladylike power, skirmishing boldly at the net, fighting off the cramps of fatigue and responding to mounting pressure by simply getting tougher. When the battle was over at Wimbledon last week, the British girls had outlasted the Americans, 4-3, and won the Wightman Cup, but not before players on both teams had produced a caliber of tennis that was unmatched in years for sustained drama...
...second set, the Americans won the first three games, only to have the British rally again to take the lead. Five times the Americans fought off match point. It was well past 8 p.m. when the final shot gave the British the set, 9-7, the match and the Wightman Cup, a rose-filled gewgaw that had been tethered by a rope on a windswept sideline during the two days of struggle...