The score was 3-5 in the third set— match point for Helen Jacobs—with Mrs. Moody serving. In the stands, the capacity crowd of 19,000, many of whom had stood in a queue all night to get a seat, leaned forward, silent as death. It was, they realized, the crucial point of the most exciting match that Wimbledon had ever seen. To understand why it was the most exciting it would have been necessary to know something of what led up to it, to understand, for instance, exactly...
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