She made Marion Zinderstein
Jessop the fine player she is. Mrs. Wrightman is always willing
to offer sound advice to any player who desires it.
Mrs. Wightman and Miss Florence Ballin are the prime factors in
the new organization of woman's tennis that has resulted in the
great growth of the game in the past two years.
MRS. JESSOP (Marion Zinderstein)
There is no player in tennis of greater promise than Marion
Zinderstein Jessop. She has youth, a wonderful game, the result
of a sound foundation given her by Hazel Wightman, and a
remarkable amount of experience for so young a girl. She has a
beautiful fast service, but erratic. Her ground- game is
perfectly balanced, as she chops or drives from either side with
equal facility. She volleys with great severity and certainty.
Her overhead is possibly her weakest point. She lacks the
confidence that her game really deserves.
HELEN WILLS
The most remarkable figure that has appeared on the horizon of
woman's tennis since Suzanne Lenglen first flashed into the
public eye, is little Helen Wills of California, Junior Champion
of 1921. She is only fifteen. Stocky, almost ungainly, owing to
poor footwork, her hair in pigtails down her back, she is a
quaint little person who instantly walks into hearts of the
gallery.
The tennis this child plays is phenomenal. She serves with the
power and accuracy of a boy. She drives and chops forehand and
backhand with reckless abandon.
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