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...their 1954 tennis tour at Madison Square Garden with a new cast of characters, "the four best tennis players in the world-five, if I play," says Kramer. The new cast included some old faces: Don Budge, now 38 and sadly slowed, but still master of the most devastating backhand in the game; Sedgman, an old pro of 26; Pancho Segura, 32, the most dogged retriever tennis has seen; and Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, making a sensational comeback to the pro tour at the advanced...
...year at Wimbledon. It was a net-rushing struggle, but in the end Seixas won in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. That left it up to Ken Rosewall to prevent the first all-American finals in the National since 1950. Armed with cunning and the best backhand among amateurs, little (5 ft. 7 in., 145 lbs.) Ken fought a war of maneuver from the baseline. But Trabert's cannonading returns took a steady toll. Rosewall, too, went down in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. For the moment, at least, Australia's grip...
Ufford tangled with Al Schwartz, last year's top man at Yale, in the day's closest match. By concentrating on Schwartz's relatively weak backhand, the Crimson captain led by a set, and then five games to one in the second, when the ex-Eli came back brilliantly. The final score was 4-6, 8-6, 6-4 for Schwartz...
...Wood picked off a toss from Captain Ron Huebsch 25 feet from the net, took two steps, turned, and fired in for the score. Skip Baldwin continued the drive at 12:50 when he grabbed a pass intended for attackman Monk Aiello and took advantage of the screen to backhand it in for the score...
...preliminary match, Sedgman's Aussic sidekick, Ken McGregor, steadied down his cantankerous backhand to edge Pancho Seguro, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. The Down Under champ's win was but his sixth against 20 losses during the tour and came on the seventh service break of the final...