Unfortunately Norton regards his
tennis largely as a joke. His judgment is therefore faulty, and
he is apt to loaf on the court. He tries the most impossible
shots that sometimes go in; and in the main, his court
generalship is none too good.
He is an irrepressible boy, and his merry smile and chatter make
him a tremendous favourite with the gallery. He has a very strong
personality that should carry him a long way.
Louis Raymond, the left-handed star of the South Africans, has an
excellent ground game coupled with a good service and fair
volleying and overhead. His game is not remarkable. He is a
hard-working, deserving player who attains success by industry
rather than natural talent. His judgment is sound and methods of
play orthodox, except for a tendency to run around his backhand.
C. R. Blackbeard, the youngest member of the team, and G. H.
Dodd, its captain, are both very excellent players of the second
flight. Blackbeard is very young, not yet twenty, and may develop
into a star. At present he chops too much, and is very erratic.
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There are many other players whom I would analyse if I had the
time or space; but in these days of paper shortage and ink
scarcity, conservation is the keynote of the times.
Let me turn for a few moments to the women whose fame in the
tennis world is the equal of the men I have been analysing.
CHAPTER XVII. FAMOUS WOMEN PLAYERS
Women's Tennis
The great boom that featured the whole tennis season of 1921 in
America found one of its most remarkable manifestations in the
increased amount of play, higher standard of competition and
remarkable growth of public interest in women's tennis.
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