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Captain Dale Junta will probably play, unless his back injury bothers him too much, but his opponent will be Jim Farrin, who beat him in three sets last year. Farrin has improved greatly since then, with a win over Australian Davis Cupper Neale Fraser...
Said former Aussie Davis Cupper Adrian Quist: "Their sole aim seemed to be to crush one another. Their standard of play is better than we have ever seen." Said Hoad, who is only too happy to explain how he has hopped up his game to match the wondrous power of Gonzales: "I'm hitting harder, flatter, trying to drive the other man to the base line. Either he can slam a hot one down the sideline or he can go for a cross-court drive. Now I always cover that sideline...
...never be sure of Miami's lineup--it is said that the list is chosen by drawing lots before each match--but somewhere between first and sixth singles will appear the likes of Johann Kupferburger, top Davis Cupper from the Union of South Africa, and highly ranked American stars as Al and Dave Harum, Ed Rubinoff, Allen Quay, and Larry Schaffer...
...69th All-England tennis championships. Earliest high-seeded casualties: U.S. Davis Cup Player Vic Seixas, blasted out in the second round by U.S. Hard Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, Wimbledon's paunchy...
...Rosewall, the prodigy who at 17 upset U.S. Davis Cup Captain Vic Seixas in the U.S. Nationals, did it again last week. Next day Rosewall became the youngest player ever to win the men's singles title by blasting a relative veteran, 22-year-old Davis Cupper Mervyn Rose, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4. Then Rosewall and his 18-year-old sidekick, Lewis Hoad, walked away with the doubles crown. Gasped Rose: "What will he be like in another couple of years...