Word: gimeno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paved with silverware from Wimbledon and Forest Hills. No longer. Stripped of nearly all its top-rank players, amateur tennis is in the doldrums, and Pro Promoter Jack Kramer has been forced to develop his own stars. Best of Kramer's new proteges is Spain's Andres Gimeno, an agile 23-year-old who never won a major amateur tournament...
...home, where he ran up six Spanish doubles and two Spanish singles championships, handsome Andres Gimeno (pronounced Hee-may-no) is a national hero. In athletic Australia, where he beat Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson in late '58, Gimeno is regarded as an undesirable alien. In the U.S. he is only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet...