Retro time: Lew Hoad Serve

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Don,
Are you sure you aren't mixing this up with Tilden's loss of a finger tip?

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And here some frames of his serve from the back...

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And for those who might have missed this earlier posting, here is Lew Hoad in action in his famous Davis Cup when over Tony Trabert...

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81817

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On this sequence, you can see the inverted u his hitting arm shapes after impact... a la Sampras...