Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...player rarely makes more than 75 shots. In a three-out-of-five-set tennis match, a player may make as many as 5,000 shots. Consequently, in tennis, luck counts for comparatively little and the better player almost always wins. Before the All-England tennis championships started at Wimbledon last fortnight, experts knew who the best players were: redhaired, lanky Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. and Germany's handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm...
...Wimbledon Week" is a fortnight in which five tournaments (men's and women's singles, men's, women's and mixed doubles) are played simultaneously before well-mannered, tennis-wise London crowds who stand in queues all night for tickets, drink tea and ginger beer under the old green stands between matches. Last week, 128 of the world's ablest tennists were entered in the men's singles. Record crowds watched the field narrow down to a final in which Budge and von Cramm played each other for the "world's championship" which...
Increasingly able since he played in his first Wimbledon tournament in 1935, Budge has this year reached the peak of his form. On his way to last week's final he had lost only one set-to his Davis Cup Teammate Frank Parker in the semifinals. Included among the opponents whom he had beaten with distressing ease were Australia's Vivian McGrath, Czechoslovakia's Ladislow Hecht, France's Christian Boussus. Von Cramm had more trouble in his early matches, beating Australia's Jack Crawford in five sets and then playing a red-hot semi-final...
...finalists, England's Peggy Scriven. Two days later, Jaja defeated erratic Alice Marble, 8-6, 6-2, in the semi-finals after being behind at 3-5 and set-point in the first set. This achievement made her a strong favorite to bring Poland its first title in Wimbledon history...
...outsteadied Mme Mathieu 6-4, 6-0 in the semifinals, made it unthinkable that she would fail to rise to this historic opportunity. Truer to feminine tennis tradition than to her somewhat unfeminine exterior, Jaja did the unthinkable. The match, as ragged a women's final as Wimbledon had seen since the War, proceeded as though each contestant, far below her best form, were trying to give points to the other. When it finally ended, Dorothy Round, champion in 1934, was champion again...