Word: borotra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youth, personified by George M. Lott Jr., whom the U. S. substituted the week of the matches for seasoned Francis T. Hunter, was inadequate before Jean Borotra, who leaped about...
...Youth rose up invincible when John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, new British doubles champions, met Cochet & Borotra. Winning 6-1, 8-6, 6-4, they stood forth as the most smooth-running doubles team in the game today...
When Tilden played Borotra, a great career, at least, ended appropriately. Borotra took a set before the Tilden placements began to find their marks. Then Borotra had to leap indeed, to race backwards, forwards and sideways. Wearied by the doubles of the day before, he was utterly exhausted when the umpire called the final point Tilden's. The score...
...singles Jean René Lacoste of France beat Tilden; Jean Borotra of France beat Hunter; Borotra, surprisingly, beat Cochet, but lost to the imperturbable, saturnine, inexorable Lacoste in the finals...
...they have done before, Lacoste and Borotra beat Tilden and Hunter...