Word: wimbledon
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...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 St. Louis named Justina Bricka...
With only six years of competitive tennis behind her, Justina outplayed 29-year-old Wimbledon Champion Mortimer 10-8, 4-6. 6-3. in the match that clinched U.S. victory. Only child of non-tennis-playing parents, soft-hitting Justina ranked only eleventh among U.S. women, and was noted primarily for her unspectacular 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...
...Pictures will release in the U.S. in the fall. With a trim, sylvan body, winter-sky-blue eyes and jonquil hair. 22-year-old Susannah is one of the few English girls who can seem equally natural nibbling strawberries in a May-fairy frock in The Players Restaurant at Wimbledon or sprinting eastward in a bikini on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Born in London and raised in Scotland, she met Actor Michael Wells at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, married him, now lives in a dusty flat in an unfashionable part of Chelsea among half-dead flowers...
Despite his stocky football player's build, pugnacious Chuck McKinley danced, pranced and pirouetted around Wimbledon's center court last week like a souped-up Nijinsky. The gallery loved it. What had been shaping up as the dullest Wimbledon tournament of the century was suddenly infused with zest and excitement, and the credit belonged entirely to the 20-year-old, 5-ft. 8-in., 163 lb. dynamo from St. Louis. "Chunky Chuck looks like a rock but moves like a dragonfly," said a British newsman. Marveled the London Times: "He plays most of the time with both feet...
...McKinley was not yet ready for Australia's canny, flame-haired Rod ("The Rocket") Laver, 22, seeded second. Laver was in danger of becoming Wimbledon's perennial bridesmaid: two years ago he lost the final to Peru's flashy Alex Olmedo, now a pro; last year Fraser beat him. This time Laver made it, and in only 55 minutes. With the score tied 3-3 in the first set, Laver broke through McKinley's service, won nine out of the next ten games for a commanding 6-3, 6-1 lead. He let up briefly...