Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second straight year, Harvard's tennis team came in second to Princeton this weekend in the Eastern College Athletic Conference's annual fall tennis tournament at Princeton...
...stratification of tennis players, the Australian stars are classified as full-fledged professionals (as opposed to "players" like Ashe, who may compete for money but are not under professional contract to any organization). Last July, Davis Cup officials voted down a motion to sanction the series as an open tournament, which served to preclude the game's top players from competition and perpetuate the charge of "shamateurism" that has plagued tennis for years...
Laver was hardly a shoo-in. Driving rains interrupted play and turned the venerable club's tournament into a slippery game of chance. As Roche advanced toward the finals, Laver's luck looked even less assured. In matches earlier this year, Roche defeated Laver five out of seven times. Roche is seven years younger than Laver and, at 5 ft. 10 in., 175 Ibs., considerably stronger...
...second set Laver settled into a flawless groove. He broke Roche's spirit by consistently parrying his powerful serve, glided swiftly over the court to fire winner after winner past an opponent whose concentration collapsed into a desperate scramble. In just 113 minutes, Laver won his seventeenth tournament and 30th consecutive match of the season...
Though some of the solid balls have not yet been accepted for tournament play by the U.S. Golf Association, the players who use them are not complaining. Tournaments are not for the over-par golfer anyway. The only real trouble with the solid-state balls is that -just like the old ones-they are embarrassingly easy to lose...