Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two decades the center court at Wimbledon has seemed like the private preserve of two nations: the U.S. and Australia. But last week, in the 1959 championships, the two big powers took back seats to and got one very rude shock from a pair of Latin nations, where tennis is still a relatively new and undeveloped sport. In the men's division, Alex Olmedo, who plays Davis Cup tennis for the U.S. but comes from Peru, which lists but 3,000 tennis players, was the class of the field. And in the women's division, a slender...
Chief in Command. Olmedo's victory was no surprise. When the going is easy, the lithe, 23-year-old Peruvian with the classic Inca features can blow a match with the best of them. But his charging, slashing game stiffens under pressure, and at Wimbledon the going was tough enough to challenge his mastery. Ranged against him were Australia's nimble Rod Laver, 20, and dark-haired Roy Emerson, 22, and America's moody, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Barry MacKay. 23, Olmedo's Davis Cup teammate against Australia last winter. MacKay did not get beyond...
...Wimbledon's sweltering center court, Maria kept her nerves under control. Not a flicker of emotion crossed her face as she slammed home crushing serves and front-court volleys to win 6-4, 6-3. Then Brazil's pretty brunette tennis queen sank her head into her hands and had a good...
...Wodehouse story it is perfectly natural for the cartoonist of a syndicated U.S. comic strip to find himself sharing a British beach resort with contenders in an American-type "Beautiful Babies" contest, for a New York publisher to be found naked in the hothouse of a dwelling on Wimbledon Common, or even for a member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick...
...leaving again. But I will be brave and will not cry." That afternoon, as she stood waiting for the plane that carried Alejo back to the University of Southern California and U.S. tennis, she reached up, hugged him hard, and cried. Next big event in Olmedo's life: Wimbledon, in June...