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Five of Europe's Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...
...their Wimbledonians this year. But, after a fortnight of elimination matches, the two men who faced each other on the famed centre court were 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, and Elwood Cooke, an unheralded 25-year-old Oregonian who had defeated France's Christian Boussus, England's Bunny Austin and Germany's Henner Henkel on his way to the final. Against his fellow countryman, however, Cooke faded. In a seesawing five-set struggle, Riggs finally...
...last week's final he had lost only one set-to his Davis Cup Teammate Frank Parker in the semifinals. Included among the opponents whom he had beaten with distressing ease were Australia's Vivian McGrath, Czechoslovakia's Ladislow Hecht, France's Christian Boussus. Von Cramm had more trouble in his early matches, beating Australia's Jack Crawford in five sets and then playing a red-hot semi-final against England's Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin in which Austin won the third set 14-12 before losing the match in the fourth. The final...
...became easier to see how the challenge round against England would turn out. The weak member of the French team was un doubtedly young left-handed André Merlin, fourth ranking player of France, who had impressed Cochet and Lacoste, the non-playing captain, as more determined than Christian Boussus, who ranks a notch ahead of him. If Merlin lost his matches to Perry and Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have to win the doubles, Cochet would have to win both his singles matches. Most observers conceded the doubles to France, thought Cochet had a better than even chance against...
...almost certainly weaker this year. Captain and Reserve Singles Player René Lacoste, who has been trying to make a comeback this year, caught tonsilitis last week, persuaded jolly Jean Borotra to take his place. Borotra still insisted he was not good enough; there was a chance that young Christian Boussus might play one match at least. That left the doubles up to Cochet and Jacques Brugnon, who were fairly likely to lose to Van Ryn and Allison. If Cochet & Brugnon lost, the U. S. needed two singles matches out of four. Whether it would get them depended mostly on tall...