spots. Tilden, too, must be ranked, for speed and deception". Second serve: John Newcombe by far. Forehand: Pancho Segura was best, then Fred Perry, followed by Bill Tilden and Ellsworth Vines. Backhand: Donald Budge was the best, with Frank Kovacs, Ken Rosewall and Jimmy Connors in the next rank. Return of serve: Don Budge was the best, followed by Connors. Forehand volley: Wilmer Allison, followed by Budge Patty, then Newcombe. Backhand volley: Close among Frank Sedgman, Don Budge and Ken Rosewall, with Sedgman having the edge. Overhead: Ted Schroeder was the best, ahead of Vines, Rosewall and Newcombe. Lob: Bobby Riggs was the best, "but Segura, Bitsy Grant and Rosewall were almost as effective". Half volley: Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. Kramer's serve and forehand were equal to the best players in the game, but he would not talk about his own strokes. Kramer attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and he played on the tennis team in the 1941 and 1942 seasons. Pauline Betz was there at the same time. Commentator Kramer started working for the BBC as a commentator on the Wimbledon Championships in 1960, a role in which he was very popular because of his intimate off-court knowledge of most of the players. He was paired with Dan Maskell in the commentators booth. However, he was dropped by the BBC in 1973 because of his role in the ATP boycott of Wimbledon that year, which saw 81 players, including defending champion Stan Smith, stay away from the tournament. Kramer returned to the BBC to commentate on the 1976 Wimbledon championships and the 1996 Australian Open men's singles final. Kramer was the first host of BBC TV's Wimbledon evening highlights programme from 1964 to 1970. He also commentated for NBC from 1954 to 1962, ABC from 1965 to 1973 and CBS from 1968 to 1973. Thoroughbred racing A fan of Thoroughbred racing, Kramer owned and raced a number of Thoroughbred horses. Early and personal life Kramer was the son of a blue-collar railroad worker for the Union Pacific railroad. As a boy he was a fine all-round athlete, particularly in basketball and tennis. When he was 13, the family moved to San Bernardino, California, and after seeing Ellsworth Vines, then the world's best player, play a match, Kramer decided to concentrate on tennis. In 1944, he married Gloria, and they had five sons: Bob, David, John, Michael