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They Battled Out
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Wimbledon's Longest
It was
Singles Match
By JOHN COTTRELL
almost nine o'clock. Shadows were longthening over the deserted outer courts of the All-England Lawn Tennis Club, where play had long since ended.
But on that warm June evening of 1953, the great bowl of the famous
Centre Court was still packed with 18,000 enthralled spectators,
+
And
ΠΟ wonder. For the up and down the baseline be- Moreover, both score board at that time read:tween, rallies and conserved his tanatically determined J. Drobny v. 1. Patty" 0-G, energy with salt tablets and the 10-18, 3-0, 8-0, 5-0.
glucose. Patry. 20. massaged his limbs between rallies, sipped brandy, fook ali tablets and glucose, and squatted on the head of, his racquet at every opportunity.
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For almost four hours the
been watching crowd hadi fascinating duct in the swi be tween two of the greatest terals artints of all time, They had en the incredible Drobny save
#cen
Three match points in the fourth two had set. They supremely AL ven fight un relentlessly .until sach Kiep
to poln brought new bodies.
Changed His Glasses
aired
spekts dirk cicar
It had become
the longest, hardest-contested singles match i. tennis history, But now, at last, the chd seemed to be in sight, Drobny, the "Old Fox," was 15-40 down in the twelfth Kame of the 18th and final set,
Two move match points from Eudge Patty. Only a miracle would save Drobny
The vast A good ser-
Drobny to serve. rta wag-xilot vice, a brief exchange, a mighty smash by Drobny and it wan
30-40. Another good servler, a forced forehand error by Patty, and it was deuce.
'Held Their Breath
But now Drobny dropped a vital point to give Pally hus Fixth match point. As tic served again, the spectators held their breath. Could he excaps
once more":
A sizzling
them the
Fux" won
service ace
answer.
RGVC
The "Old
thal etilica Kame.
And so the struggle wint on,
gume with service, unlit it was
10 camex-ad.
By now, after 91 games,
seemed that the match must be
decided stamina, rather than
短
the his
players were 10 win Wimbledon singles title. Patty, 1050 champion, wanted to Join the distinguished few who had twice achieved that honour. Drobny, beaten In the 1949 and 1952 Wimbledon finals, aimed to be second to none in 1953.
Ruined Their Chances
the end of Towards
But
03- the Drobny-Patty murathon, Patty changed
third and Drobny changed his game marnthan-only
a pair with round singles match-ruined the glasses for lenses. Between them, chances of both men in the Year Wimbledon. they used up the water supply Coronation by the umpire's, chair.
In the hol set, Drobny twice appealed against the light, and
BUDCE PATTY
skill. Both players were de at 10 games-all the Champion-
sperately "tired and suffering ship Referee, Colone! John
from cramp.
Legs. ruled that the match would be stopped for the day Drobny, 31 years old, kept his muscles working by sprinting at 1 games-ali,
SPORTS QUIZ
ON
WIMBLEDON
But that score Was never reached. Before then, Drobny snatched the initiative by breaking Palty's service and; holding his own service, went He on to take the set 12-10. won the match four hours and fifteen minutes after it begah.
The two weary men made one more journey to the net to shake hands and the crowd stood and cheered them for n. full ve minutes,
Both had fought heroleally,
1. Who are the reigning men's For while Drobny had saved six
and women's singles cham-match polnis, Pally had made a plous?
2. Which
magnificent recovery in that Jong second ret. He had saved
It forced Drobny and Patty to drop out of the men's doubles they were partners. in which and Drobny was never fully t agala during the Championships. For an hour after the maleh rubbed by @ Drobny masseur, and it
eleven a'clock before he was it enough to leave the All-England Club. Next day he limped to victory cgainst the Australian Itex br the Hartwig and later Swede Sven Davidson,
Was
But, despite an injection, his legs would not carry him fast enough against the young Dane, Kurt Nielsen, who gave him a 0-4, 6-3, 8-2 drubbing in the semi-final.
So Jarosinv Drobny, the
son, was Moravian corpenter's.
his Ihwarted
again in ambition to win the singles title.
pare
JAROSLAV DROBNY
country has won ret points in the 29th and 31st most men's singles titles
games, and hud Laken the set since the war?
18-18 with a beautifully stroked But he had two consolation cross-court backhand volley that
prizes. only sland
3. Who has won the most
singles titles
history?
in Wimbledon even Drobny could
and admire.
Now closely
4. From 1924-20, France won
six successive men's singles contested titles. Name the three statisties,
players who achieved this.
the match WOR shown In the Drobny won 47
one more
cames, only Patty. And Patty won
Consolation Prizes
The Duchess of Kent, as Pre- than sident of the All-England Club, 304 presented Drobny a non-smolter and Patty with a silver cigarette case. And, B000 after, Drobny received Home Office permission
5. What distinction does Spen-points, three more than Drobny
cer Gore hold?
6. Who was the list player to
successfully
defend the
Two Explanations
men's singles championship? There are two explanations of
this fantastic marathon.
to reside permanently in Britain. The Czech-born cxile with
As Egyptian nationality stayed on
7. Name the partnership which old rivals, they had an intimate to light and win another day has won five women's knowledge of each other'e game, at Wimbledon. In the following doubles titles since the war, and they were extremely well-year, Drobny, once ballboy
Was
A
to as Cochet, Boroira, opposite such stars
Perry, and Tilden, joined them 6. Three men have twice been balanced with their
runners-up in the singles styles and temperaments.
as a Wimbledon champion, championship since the war.
American-born Patty
Today, the Patty-Drobny due! Names, please.
tail, alim and elegant boulevar- stil slotkis the longest a devastating singles match In Wimbledon dior from Paris,
right-handed history. But 93 mmes valleyer, and
magnificent longer a world record stroke-pinyer
singles match.
9. Who made three successivo post-war visits to Wimbledon and won three singles titles?
finesse.
C
of
(b)
Czech born,
(c)
Drobny was
newly wed, squarely-built,
power player, especially strong games.
10. Who were (a) Big Blil The Bounding Basque The Pavlova of the Court?
(Answers On Pate 19)
09
is no
for
I 1955, an indoor match at to .100 bespectacled and left-handed, a Lsons, France, went
in service and forehand, drive.
The players-Drobny
and Patty. It ended in a draw.
For lawn tennis fans the end of June means just one thing Wimbledon, battleground for the world's best amateur players.
tennis at
Photo shows Wimbledon from the air, with the famed centre-court in the background. Desolate now, it will be filled with teeming thousands during the next week.-London Express Photu.
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