France's towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Yvon Petra stomped onto Wimbledon's famed center court wearing a white jockey cap and a belligerent look. His wife had just found him a steak. Said she: "With a beefsteak inside him, he can always win." She was right.
His opponent in Wimbledon's finals was Australia's ambidextrous Geoff Brown, 22, who serves righthanded, hits with his left hand on the left side, and with a two-handed grip on the right side. Petra, 30, onetime French infantryman who spent 18 months in a German prison camp, barked at ball...
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