French tennis fans have a word for an old hand who plays a steady, smooth-stroking, unspectacular game: "crocodile." In the recent French championships the fans spotted two of the species:* Lefthander Jaroslav Drobny, 32, a self-exiled Czech now playing for Egypt, and South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank...
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