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¶ For a year's guarantee of $35,000, brooding Alex Olmedo, 23, California's Peruvian-in-residence (University of Southern California), quit amateur tennis to join the pros. In a 65-match world tour, Olmedo will hazard his erratic shots against canny Old Pros Pancho Gonzales and...
Last June, a well-fabricated girl named Madelyn Darrow, 24, better known to the sudsy electorate (22 million votes cast last year) as Miss Rheingold of 1958, wandered onto the courts of the Los Angeles Tennis Club hoping to pick up some pointers on the game. Last week it developed...
U.S. tennis is in a poor state. With the single exception of Cincinnati's crew-cut Tony Trabert, who turned pro in 1955, the U.S. has not produced a tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids...
Last week, pointedly ignoring each other off the court, the scowling Gonzales and the deadpan Hoad renewed their private duel at the $15,000 Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills, N.Y. "I think I'm as good as he is," declared Hoad, "and I know he thinks the same...
But when the match was over, Gonzales had plenty of cause to be worried. At the peak of his game, Lew Hoad anticipated returns like a mind reader, served with devastating power, and blasted aging Pancho off the court. 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. The old king...