Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wimbledon last week, every one wondered who would play Henri Cochet of France in the final. They stopped wondering in the second round when Cochet, playing a sleepy match against an unseeded Englishman named Ian G. Collins, lost...
...Wightman Cup team (Helen Wills Moody, Helen Jacobs, Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, Sarah Palfrey): a series of women's tennis matches against England; 4 to 3, with England winning the last three matches; at Wimbledon...
Moody last week announced that she would sail April 27 to play in the French hard court championships, the Wimbledon tournament, the Wightman Cup matches (U. S. v. England). She won three championships abroad in 1930, did not defend them last year. Two days later, Helen Wills Moody made more news: she let her heavy coil of dark brown hair be bobbed...
...which suggested that tennis has now become so standardized that all the promising young players are almost equally good. Only one oldtime player made a showing?Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916. No one was too much surprised when Sidney Wood Jr., boastful but erratic young Wimbledon champion, was beaten by an unseeded player in the third round nor when Berkeley Bell showed annoyance at having to finish his match with Wilmer Allison on a court outside the stadium. There are at least one upset and one squabble in every tournament...
...Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played brilliantly at Wimbledon, polished off his reputation in the Davis Cup matches by beating Sidney Wood and later Jean Borotra. Onetime ping-pong player, Perry learned his tennis on London public courts, considers travel the best way to improve it. In last week's doubles, Vines was paired with Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara...