Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game. Lenglen evened the score. Wills took another game. She was hitting her service harder now. The handsome, impassive Greek mask of her face...
...Briggs-Whitbeck match, although a decisive victory for the latter, was bitterly contested, and produced long and brilliant rallies on practicaly every point. From the start, however, Whitbeck was the agressor, driving forcefully and taking the net at every opportunity. The former scholastic champion whipped stinging backhand and forehand drives across the net with amazing regularity until Briggs, one of the steadiest players in the tournament, would finally err into the net or out of bounds...
...legs into springs. It was the Prince of Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over and over. Once he said something in a different voice. That was to himself, when he had won the second game. But T. Bevan, he kept the spry...
...Haverford, Pa., furious left-handed service, an upward-ripping backhand like Gerald Patterson's, crashing overhead blows stopped all the collegiate courtsmen who pitted themselves singly against much tanned Wallace Scott of the University of Washington. Arnold W. Jones of Yale, the other finalist, was dismayed by the ball's perpetual presence on his side...
Said Mr. Spence: "She has a wonderful backhand stroke and hits with amazing power. If she can get used to the grass courts, she will be most formidable...