Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much more than a shirtmaker. He is already enshrined in an athletic valhalla that Daughter Catherine may never reach. Son of a prosperous Parisian airplane-engine maker, Lacoste dropped out of mechanical engineering studies to play tennis. He played so well that he was twice Forest Hills and Wimbledon champion as well as three-time champion of France. He was a member of the only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When he left...
...reason U.S. amateur tennis is in such parlous shape is that talent too often goes unrewarded. Puerto Rico's Charles Pasarell, for example, has won two straight U.S. Indoor championships and was the only American even to reach the men's quarterfinals at Wimbledon-yet he was passed over for the 1967 Davis Cup team. Then there is Billie Jean Moffitt King...
...ranked woman player in the world -but at home last year she had to share the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's No. 1 ranking with Texas' Nancy Richey, who had never won a major grass-court tournament. Billie Jean had. Last year at Wimbledon, she beat Australia's Margaret Smith and Brazil's Maria Bueno to give the U.S. its first All-England ladies' singles title in four years. Afterward, Martin Tressel, then president of the U.S.L.T.A., stated publicly that if the Brazilian girl had not been off her game she would have beaten Billie...
Champion & a Lady. It took Billie Jean a whole year to come up with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...
Perry Jones, 69, dean of U.S. tennis coaches, rates her among the alltime greats: behind Helen Wills Moody, the star of the 1920s and 1930s, but ahead of Doris Hart and about on a par with Maureen Connolly, who in 1953 achieved a grand slam by sweeping the Australian, Wimbledon, French and U.S. singles championships. Which, Billie Jean announced last week, is precisely her goal...