Word: bergelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon clear that the Swedes were neither playing foxy nor up to their last year's form. In the first match, the U.S.'s Veteran Ted Schroeder hardly worked up a good sweat as he whipped Swedish Champion Lennart Bergelin, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4, in just 51 minutes. In the other singles, Tony Trabert, 21, had a longer (87 minutes) tussle before subduing Sven Davidsson, 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. But Schroeder's dazzling form had Aussie experts shaking their heads in dismay: "Ted's going to give us trouble again...
...lose, Savitt is one of the men Frank Shields is counting on to bring the Davis Cup back from Australia. Sweden, with tough Lennart Bergelin (who gave the Australians a scare by winning both his singles matches last year), must be coped with this December before the U.S. can meet the Australians. Savitt has beaten Bergelin, and he has proved that he has the Australians' number.After the matches with Canada, Shields said: "All I know for certain right now is that Dick Savitt will play singles, and Tony Trabert will be my left court man in doubles." Shields...
...court game that made him a prewar Wimbledon finalist three years running, carried his team into the finals of the European Davis Cup championships with victories over Yugoslavia, Denmark, Belgium and Italy. Last week, in Bastad, Sweden, Von Cramm got his comeuppance. Sweden's Davis Cuppers Lennart Bergelin and Sven Davidsson crushed West Germany, 5-0. ¶ The University of Nevada joined a growing list* of U.S. colleges who have dropped intercollegiate football. The Nevada regents had good reason: the team would cost $42,000, and last year lost nine of its ten games...
...Champion Armando Vieira. The semifinalists: The U.S.'s Dick Savitt (who defeated the U.S.'s Art Larsen in the quarterfinals) v. the U.S.'s Herb Flam (who defeated Australia's top-seeded Frank Sedgman); Australia's Ken McGregor (who defeated Sweden's Lennart Bergelin) v. South Africa's Eric Sturgess (who defeated Vieira...
...Australian Davis Cup team got a rude shock when Sweden's big, blond Lennart Bergelin beat Frank Sedgman and veteran Jack Bromwich in two of the four singles matches. After his second victory, proud Swedes piled out of the stands to treat Bergelin to an old Swedish hissa (a toss in the air). Then the Aussies settled down and won the deciding match. Their next opponent...