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Bill Tilden
Bill Tilden (Tennis. Born, Germantown, PA, Feb. 10, 1893; died, Los Angeles, CA, June 5, 1953.) During the “Golden Age of Sports,” Bill Tilden was one of the great names of the age, ranking with Babe Ruth (q.v.), Jack Dempsey (q.v.), and Bobby Jones (q.v.). Known as “Big Bill,” Tilden in comparison to his smaller […]
Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston (Tennis. Born, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 21, 1894; died, San Francisco, CA, May 1, 1946.) When the U.S. national tennis championship moved to New York in 1915, William M. Johnston was the first to win the men’s singles title at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. Johnston was later to become […]
Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl (Tennis. Born, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, Mar. 7, 1960.) A powerful, well-conditioned baseliner, Ivan Lendl never captured tennis fans’ imaginations’ the way many of his contemporaries, including John McEnroe, did, but his record ranks among the greatest in the sport’s history. Lendl, who was dogged early in his career by accusations of tanking matches, reached the […]
John McEnroe
John McEnroe (Tennis. Born, Wiesbaden, West Germany, Feb. 16, 1959.) John Patrick McEnroe, Jr., was often considered a tennis artist, using a deft touch and the possibilities afforded by the game’s geometry to craft court brilliance. And, like many artists, he was boorish, vulgar, and impatient with societal norms, his transgressions sometimes – though not […]
