Any girl could be pardoned for having the trembles, and no one, least of all Wimbledon's seeding committee, expected much else of Billie Jean Moffitt. Though she had won a handful of minor U.S. titles, the chunky, bespectacled little Californian was only 18 and had never won a major singles tournament; at Wimbledon last year, she lost out in the very first match. The seeding committee gave her a first-round bye. And then it sent her up against Australia's No. 1-seeded Margaret Smith, a big girl with a big game, virtually undefeated in the...
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