As a top-heavy favorite, Ted Schroeder of California had no reason to be jittery, but as usual he was. As he took the court for the Wimbledon singles finals last week, he nodded awkwardly toward the royal box, where Queen Mary sat watching, instead of bending in the customary bow. Then Schroeder devoted his full attention to stocky, left-handed Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia across the net.
For one set the Czech's powerful service worked like a charm. After that it began to sputter; Drobny's weakness has always been inconsistency, a failing which prompts Prague's Communist-controlled press to call him a bourgeois when...
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