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...ALTHEA GIBSON does not belong to the clubs that will run the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association matches in Forest Hills next week, but the tournament is her big chance. The lanky Negro girl, who went from paddle tennis in Harlem to victory at Wimbledon (and is this week's TIME cover subject), is by all odds the leading contender. Shy by nature, wary of her turbulent success, the champ was a closemouthed subject for Reporter Serrell Hillman, dropped her guard only when Hillman spent a week at her side, trailed her to Chicago for the Clay Courts championship...
...Pacing the U.S. Wightman Cup team, Wimbledon Champion Althea Gibson won two singles matches (against Great Britain's Shirley Bloomer and Christine Truman), paired with Darlene Hard to take a doubles from Bloomer and Sheila Armstrong. Result: U.S. women tennis players beat Britain 6-1, again won the Wightman Cup which they have held since...
...logging 2,407 miles over the 2,225-mile course. "We went looking for the fastest winds and quickest course to Honolulu," noted Nimble Navigator Ullman. ¶ In the women's finals of the U.S. Clay Court championships in Chicago last week, Wimbledon Champ Althea Gibson, 29, aiming squarely at next month's U.S. singles championships, overpowered California's Darlene Hard, her Wimbledon opponent, 6-2, 6-3. In the men's finals, aging (33) Vic Seixas downed Herb Flam (28) in a pattyball party by the score...
...Althea, the road to the center court at Wimbledon and the pinnacle of women's tennis was a long one, and all uphill. She grew up in a Harlem tenement, learned the fundamentals of the game playing with crude wooden paddles on the pavements of New York. In 1950, when she was invited to play in the U.S. nationals at Forest Hills, she was leading Former Champion Louise Brough in the second round when a thunderstorm washed out the match. Next day Althea collapsed before seasoned Tennist Brough. From that match until last week, no one really knew...
Sponge Tosser. While Althea was slamming her way through 6 opponents to the title, Hoad at first performed more like a talented but moody schoolboy than the defending champion. In early matches, played on the far reaches of Wimbledon before standing galleries of only a few hundred, he snarled at himself when a shot went astray, grimaced when his booming serve missed by millimeters. Asked one newspaper: "Can Hoad beat the sulks?" Against Sweden's Sven Davidson in the semifinals, Hoad fretted some, but still won in a breeze...