Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranked sixth. Last winter, Savitt went on a barnstorming trip to Australia.There he began to reach peak form, partly under the tutelage of Veteran Adrian Quist. Says Quist: "He was ceaselessly eager to learn and profited promptly from every fragment of advice." Savitt crowned his tour by winning the Australian Championship.* In the four-set final, Savitt whipped young (22) Ken McGregor, who had clinched the Davis Cup last fall...
...Misses Hart and Fry then beat the veteran doubles pair of Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont and Louise Brough, four-time Wimbledon champions, 6-3, 13-11. Doris and Australia's Frank Sedgmari won the mixed-doubles title, 7-5, 6-2, from the Australian team of Mervyn Rose and Mrs. Nancye Wynne Bolton. Sedgman and McGregor successfully defended their title by downing Drobny and South Africa's Eric Sturgess...
...MCGREGOR, 22, the rawboned Australian newcomer who clinched the Davis Cup last year with a dashing, impetuous "big game," has since lapsed into his normal, gawky style...
DICK SAVITT, 24, the U.S.'s Australian champion, a dogged slam-banger who has come far in the past year, but has also lost to Drobny six times out of seven...
MERVYN ROSE, 21, Australian lefthander and the most Improved player from Down Under-strong on fundamental strokes, weak in experience...