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• photography

Black and white photograph of Don Budge. He is wearing a short sleeved collared shirt, white pants and white shoes and is swinging a tennis racket in his right hand. He is on a tennis court with an empty stadium behind him. The eleven tennis balls on the court behind him, as well as the empty stadium, indicate that he is probably practicing.

Don BudgeFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Budge (5/3/2007) John Donald ("Don") Budge (June 13, 1915 _ January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for 5 years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first man to win in a single year the four tournaments that compose the Grand Slam of tennis. Budge was considered to have the best backhand in the history of tennis, at least until the emergence of Ken Rosewall in the 1950s and '60s.Born in Oakland, California, ...Budge studied at the University of California, Berkeley in late 1933 but left to play tennis with the U.S. Davis Cup auxiliary team.

Used: Oakland Tribune