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Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers...
This year, things have been looking up for Hoad. At 24, he is seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an...
In top form, Hoad managed to beat Gonzales on this year's tour, 15 matches to 13. But Hoad still consistently lost to Gonzales in key tournaments. And because Pancho mopped up the other touring pros-Aussies Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson-he came out with top prize money...
Tandem Tactics. At Brisbane the Chief led off for the U.S. against Anderson, and from the first serve it was obvious that he found the match interesting. Before the astonished eyes of 18,000 Australian partisans, Olmedo charged repeatedly for killing volleys, managed an upset victory 8-6, 2-6...
On the final day Olmedo was matched against Cooper, generally rated the world's leading amateur. Alex seemed unawed, showed up for a strategy workout with Gonzales, displayed to dressing-room interviewers a pair of underdrawers decorated with gorgeous women. "This way I never run out of girls," he...