Mrs.Bundy in 1921 was still a great player.She has a peculiar reverse twist service, a wonderful forehand drive, but with excessive top spin, a queer backhand poke, a fine volley and a reliable overhead.Much of her old aggressiveness and speed of foot are still hers.She retains all of her famous fighting spirit and determination, while she is even more charming and delightful than of old.She is a remarkable woman, who stands for all that is best in the game.
MARY KENDALL BROWNE
The return of another former National Champion in 1921 in the person of Mary K.Browne, who held the title in 1912, '13 and '14, brought us again a popular idol.The tennis public has missed Miss Browne since 1914 and her return was in the nature of a personal triumph.
Mary Browne has the best produced tennis game of any American woman.It is almost if not quite the equal in stroke technique of Suzanne Lenglen.She has a fast flat service.Her ground strokes are clean, flat drives forehand and backhand.She volleys exactly like Billy Johnston.No praise can be higher.Her overhead is decisive but erratic.She couples this beautiful game with a remarkable tennis head and a wonderful fighting spirit.
Miss Browne is a trig and trim little figure on the court as she glides over its surface.It is no wonder that her public love her.
MRS.GEORGE WIGHTMAN (Hazel Hotchkiss)
The woman to whom American tennis owes its greatest debt in development is Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, National Champion 1909, '10, '11 and 1919.Mrs.Wightman has practically retired from singles play.Her decision cost the game a wonderful player.She has a well placed slice service, a ground game that is essentially a chop fore- and backhand,although at times she drives off her forehand.She volleys remarkably.She is the equal of Mary Browne in this department, while her overhead is the best of any woman in the game.
Hazel Wightman is as clever a court general and tactician, man or woman, as I have ever known.She has forgotten more tennis than most of us ever learn.She is the Norman Brookes of woman's tennis.
It is not only in her game that Mrs.Wightman has stood for the best in tennis, but she has given freely of her time and ability to aid young players in the game.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.She rushes to the net and kills in a way that is reminiscent of Maurice McLoughlin.Suddenly she dubs the easiest sort ofa shot and grins a happy grin.There is no doubt she is already a great player.She should become much greater.She is a miniature Hazel Wightman in her game.Above all, she is that remarkable combination, an unspoiled child and a personality.
There are many other players of real promise coming to the front.Boston boasts of a group that contains Mrs.Benjamin E.Cole (Anne Sheafe) who has made a great record in the season of 1921; Miss Edith Sigourney, who accompanied Mrs.Mallory abroad, Miss Leslie Bancroft and Mrs.Godfree.There are Miss Martha Bayard, Miss Helen Gilleandean, Mrs.Helene Pollak Folk, Miss Molly Thayer, Miss Phyllis Walsh and Miss Anne Townsend in New York and Philadelphia.
France
MLLE.SUZANNE LENGLEN
There is no more unique personality, nor more remarkable player among the women than Mademoiselle Suzanne Lenglen, the famous French girl who holds the World's Championship title.Mlle.Lenglen is a remarkable figure in the sporting world.She has personality, individuality, and magnetism that hold the public interest.She is the biggest drawing card in the tennis world.
