Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temperature at Melbourne's Koo-yong stadium boiled to 112° last week, but nobody minded except the spectators (too of whom fainted in their seats) and a listless pair of players from sunny Italy. In a mismatch worthy of the Roman Colosseum, Australia's Davis Cup defenders, Rod Laver, Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson, beat back the Italian challengers 5-0, took home the 62-year-old cup for a record tenth time in twelve years...
...Gerald Patterson of a combined Australia-New Zealand team. "A pathetic display," snapped the Sydney Morning Herald, and Milan's II Giorno agreed: "They played like trained seals." Italy's coach, Czech Jaroslav Drobny, was so disgusted by his team's showing ("They treated the Davis Cup like a garden party") that he planned to resign...
Foreign tennis fans could find small hope in the fact that Emerson & Co. probably will not be around to defend the Davis Cup next year: at week's end Fraser was already talking about retiring: Emerson and Laver insisted they had no immediate plans to turn pro. But these days, the top amateurs, both in the U.S. and Australia, almost always defect to the pros. But Australia plans for such losses. Ever since 1950, the ever-changing Aussie roster has almost always been good enough to lick the rest of the world. The teams...
...During these lean years of Down Under tennis, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper still managed to win the Davis Cup in 1957; they might have repeated in 1958 if Peruvian Alex Olmedo had not carried the U.S. to victory. Both turned pro with varying success: Cooper has done well, but Anderson is erratic and unspectacular. They were ably replaced as Davis Cuppers by Fraser, Laver and Emerson...
...Next best record: the U.S.'s seven straight victories, run up in 1920-26 by Bill Tilden, Bill Johnston and Vinnie Richards. The string was broken by France in 1927, and the U.S. did not win the Davis Cup again until...