Sport: Who Won, Oct. 30, 1939
> Lanky Ellsworth Vines, 28, of Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable strokes of any player in the world but that his 47-year-old legs are not what they used to be. In the semifinals, Fred Perry took him 6-3, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.
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