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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he got out of the Navy in the summer of 1953, Cincinnati's Tony Trabert was just one more crew-cut amateur tennis player. Two months later, his big serve and sharp volleys were unbeatable, and at Forest Hills he won the U.S. Singles championship in a breeze. Tony immediately began to toy with a couple of big ideas: now, maybe, he could afford to get married; now, if he could go on to add a Wimbledon title to his U.S. championship, he would be eligible for one of those fat pro contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road to the Pros | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Only half his plan worked out; Tony got married. That winter he almost brought the Davis Cup home but Australia finally cinched it. Then his game fell apart. In one tournament after another, Tony took embarrassing lickings. He managed to win the French Singles championship in May, but at Wimbledon he lost to Aussie Ken Rosewall in the semifinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road to the Pros | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Last week Tony stood once more on the center court of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, tuned up at last to the proper pitch for the Wimbledon championship. He had wasted no time getting to the final round, blasting his way past such dangerous competitors as last year's champ, Czechoslovakia's aging (33) Expatriate Jaroslav Drobny, and the U.S.'s Parisian Playboy Budge Patty. Across the net stood Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, an unseeded surprise who had knocked over Ken Rosewall and Italy's Nicolo Pietrangeli to get to the finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road to the Pros | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...later. "You hit to one or the other." This, he insisted, was his only strategy. It worked so well that he won 6-3, 7-5, 6-1. Not since the U.S.'s redheaded Don Budge turned the trick in 1938 had any man run out the Wimbledon championship without losing a set. Now, if he can win back his U.S. title, Tony is a cinch for a crack at the pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Road to the Pros | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Neither Midwestern heat nor blustery Kansas winds on the Wichita Country Club course could throw Uruguay's Fay Crocker off her game long enough to let any other competitor get within reach of the U.S. Women's National Open golf championship. Second and third behind the steady Uruguayan's 299 came Mary Lena Faulk and Louise Suggs, both with 303. Only former Champion Patty Berg fired a single sub-par round, but she still finished fourth with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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