Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emmet then gained a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five deuce only to tin a routine drive. On the final point of the match, Howe dropped a perfect lob serve in Emmet's backhand court, which the Crimson player could not effectively return. Howe's follow-up drive down the wall extracted the final error and ended the match...
...whom was the brilliant defending champion, Henri Salaun of Boston. Salaun is one of the very finest players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...
...former varsity captain did not give an inch under Salaun's expertly applied pressure, and took the match with a perfectly executed backhand corner shot at match point in the fifth game. In this game Hechscher appeared to be on his way to an easy win, as he took a quick 10-4 lead. But at this point the remarkable Salaun, tired and hampered by an injury, came back to win four points in a row, and after Heckscher duplicated this feat to make the score 14-8, he pulled out five straight match points to make the score...
Medick can tell almost exactly where the ball lands on the table. He can tell whether the player hits a backhand or a forehand, whether the stroke is a drive or a chop. He is unbothered by slight deafness in one ear, and his only problem is judging the service in doubles, where the ball must land on the proper side of the white line ("So far, I've never called one wrong"). Listening peacefully behind his dark glasses, Referee Medick is table tennis' most relaxed fan. "I don't get crosseyed following the ball," he says...
...pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately to win the third 16-14. In the break before the fourth set, Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales rushed to the dressing room, gave Olmedo and Richardson some sound counsel. Eraser's return of service from the backhand court had been devastating. Gonzales advised the U.S. pair to go into tandem alignment; i.e., have the netman play on the same side of the court as the server, force Fraser to return service down the sideline. The U.S. team went on to win the last two sets and the match...