Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth ("Bunny") Ryan won her first tennis championship in 1912. She went to England for the summer of 1914, stayed abroad to drive an ambulance in the War. Since the War, she has won 20 titles at Wimbledon (doubles and mixed doubles), innumerable minor championships, played Suzanne Lenglen in a Wimbledon singles final. Last week, equipped with a British accent and a contract to write about the tournament, Elizabeth Ryan, 43. was entered at Forest Hills. Playing in shorts for the first time in her career, she lost to Helen Jacobs in the quarterfinals...
...last week played England at Wimbledon in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, lost the first two matches, won the third. With the score 2-to-1 for England, the U. S. team could win this No. 1 tennis trophy only by repeating what it had done the week before against Australia...
...Whisking his well-timed backhand down the sidelines, he won the next two, 6-4, 7-5. After the rest period, Perry evened the match, 6-0, while Wood gathered his forces for the fifth set. The moment that settled the match for last week's spectators at Wimbledon, the moment which will be remembered as the climax of a tournament that lasted for 13 months and in which 27 countries entered teams, came in the fifth set. Perry had led, 5-1. Wood then pulled up to 3-5 on his own serve. At 30-all, he still...
After Shields, playing wobbly tennis, had lost to Crawford, 6-1, 6-2, 12-10, McGrath and Wood walked out on Wimbledon's centre court last week. McGrath, brushing his awkward backhand into the corners of Wood's court, took the first two sets, 7-5, 6-4. Wood stopped smiling, spit out his chewing gum and ran off the third, 6-1. After the ten-minute rest, he still seemed the more confident of the two. When he led at 5-2, it looked as if he had the match well in hand. Then a footfault judge...
Doubles winners at Wimbledon last week were: George Lott and Lester Stoefen, Elizabeth Ryan and Mme René Mathieu; mixed doubles winners: Dorothy Round and Ryuki Miki...