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¶ When Pro Tennis Champ Pancho Gonzales, 29, heard that he and Lew Hoad, 22, Australia's recent convert to play-for-pay, were scheduled for last week's Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club, he intimated that Wimbledon Champ Hoad was not...
Still, at Christchurch last week, Ken tried again, and with desperate brilliance, pulled out a match, 2-6, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3, 9-7. It was only the second time in nine matches that Rosewall had won-a disquieting pro debut for World Champion Gonzales' latest high...
Since Pancho has his eye on the present, he is out to win every set he can in his eighth year as a pro. Now an oldtimer at 28, Gonzales is too much of a businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights...
Hit where it hurt, Gonzales went to work to overcome his love of calories, late hours and long snoozes. He practiced hard, played his way back up to the salary scale, last year made $40,000 for demoralizing ex-Wimbledon and ex-U.S. Champion Tony Trabert, 74 matches to...
When Kramer and his troupe left New Zealand for Australia and a ?7,500 pro tournament last week, 91 more tennis matches all over the globe lay ahead-far more opportunity than Pancho Gonzales needs to drive home the fact that he is not only the greatest tennis player alive...