Word: backcourt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls of annoyance, and expansive, contagious moments of triumph, has revived the prestige of the backcourt game. Keeping the ball in the corners, he rarely tries for kills but scores by making the other fellow miss. His trick of taking the crowd into his confidence with jokes and bits of pantomime has the double effect of drawing attention to himself and upsetting his antagonists; he is intensely...
...Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla...
During the second set Señorita de Alvarez suddenly switched from backcourt play to a furious storming of the net which had about it the flavor of a battle cry: "For King and Country!" Soon Miss Wills had lost the third game, the fourth, the sixth, the seventh. Señorita de Alvarez led by one game and fairly scintillated pleasure. Throughout she had shown the full gamut of emotion whenever a point went for or against her. Europeans in the gallery warmed to approval of her frank spontaneity. Anglo-Saxons beamed pridefully upon the correct, emotionless, orthodox sportswomanship...
Concerning the technique of Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their...
...Wimbledon. On a smooth lawn marked with white lines, two Frenchmen were indulging in an active tennis match. One of them bounded about at the net, volleying everything he could; the other played a backcourt game, driving deeply and accurately. His brow was furrowed with concentration; he was trying very hard to win. His rival at the net was more debonair; when a neat lob passed him, he kissed his fingers to it; occasionally he called out, "Bravo, René." He, Jean Borotra, was playing against René Lacoste, conquerer of J. O. Anderson, for the championship of England...