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There was no Tilden, no Budge, no Perry, no Vines on the courts at Forest Hills last week-biggest week of the tennis year. There was one big fellow that the professional tennis promoters wanted -if he won the national singles title. That was Frank Kovacs.
Kovacs' specialty, like Tilden's, is making hard shots look easy. But unlike Tilden, he sometimes makes easy ones look hard. He used to do a lot of clowning on the courts, but this year he has been serious most of the time. Despite that, and despite his...
Don McNeill, last year's champion, has played very badly this year. Nobody knows what is the matter with his game, least of all McNeill. His shots simply don't go where he wants them to. Last week Kovacs, enjoying one of his brilliant days, took McNeill in...
Everybody knows what is right about Bobby Riggs's game. He plays tennis like a professional blackjack dealer. He doesn't hit hard, but he thinks hard and fast. And he has control like an expert rifleman. In the final, Powerhouse Kovacs was too much for Riggs in...
While Kovacs, more intent on horse play than tennis, was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Annapolis Midshipman Joe Hunt, McNeill streaked through to the final - beating along the way young Jack Kramer, the boy wonder of this year's tournament, who had defeated, earlier in the week, Topnotchers...