Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good male tennis player beat a topnotch female tennis player? This week the world's best woman player gave New York Times Sportswriter Allison Danzig a decidedly nonfeminist answer. Said U.S. and Wimbledon Champion Maureen Connolly: "He would simply annihilate her. I know. I was annihilated myself yesterday by a pro no one has ever heard of." Added Little Mo, the hardest hitter in the ladies' division: "Men hit so much harder and run so much faster than women that we don't have a ghost of a chance against them . . . They are so much stronger...
...Wimbledon Champion Victor Seixas lost the Newport invitation men's singles, after wrenching his knee in the third set, to Tony Trabert, 5-7, 0-6, 6-4, 8-6, 6-3. But he was the recipient of a memorable limerick from the London Observer, which had been brooding over pronunciation of his name...
...Wimbledon champion, Seixas, Is nothing if not efficeixas. He delivers his ace With incredible pace, While the rest of us murmur "Good greixas...
...paced by the U.S.'s Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, U.S., Wimbledon and Australian tennis champion, a U.S. team successfully defended the Wightman Cup for the 17th straight time since 1930 (7-0). from a quartet of British girls...
...women's final, San Diego's hard-driving Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly won her second Wimbledon title in a row, 8-6, 7-5, in a brilliant baseline match with Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla. It was the eighth all-American women's finals in eight years...