Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurt him, and he rested on his racquet between shots. Lott & Doeg ran out the match, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 9-n, 6-2. In the finals they ran through Allison & Van Ryn for two sets. It looked like no match at all until the Wimbledon champions broke through Doeg's service in the tenth game to win the third set. Like new men, Allison & Van Ryn came out after the rest period and took the fourth set after 28 terrific games. By all accepted tennis psychology that should have meant the end of Doeg & Lott...
...William ("Young") Stribling (188 Ib.) of Georgia: a fight (billed as "World's Heavyweight Championship") with Phil Scott, 206-lb. Britisher; in the second round, by a knockout, after Scott had been down for three counts of nine in the first round; in Wimbledon stadium, England...
...Helen Newington Wills Moody, world's woman tennis champion, returned to the U. S., confirmed a report that, though she has won it four times, she has never seen the Wimbledon...
...game. When the score reached 4-all in the last set, Tilden drew Borotra to the net and played his backhand until the Frenchman, reaching for a passing shot, lost his footing and sprawled heavily on the side line. Once, when he needed the fifth set to win, a Wimbledon crowd would hardly have needed to wait while Tilden won it. They waited last week, while Borotra drew even at Sall and then while Tilden, his long shadow falling across the court like a hammer as he served, ran out two games...
...with a burst of aces, 6-3. Allison made a match of it in the second set, but Tilden served five love games to win at 9-7. In the presence of the King, Queen and Prince George, who is President of the all England Club which runs Wimbledon, Tilden won the last set and match 6-4. At 37 he had climbed back to a pinnacle whither no man ever returned after nine year-champion of the world...