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Pancho Gonzales, 20, was not good enough last summer to make the U.S. Davis Cup team. He had won only one worthwhile tennis tournament (at Southampton). Then Pancho stalked into Forest Hills in September and pulled off one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, to become National Amateur champion...
In Los Angeles, Ted Schroeder got to the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tourney. And he was mad. The press had panned him for going straight home (to work at his job, selling refrigeration equipment) after winning his Davis Cup matches. They expected a little more interest in the game...
For four sets, the oldster (27) and the youngster (20) slammed the ball back & forth, with the gallery decidedly pro-Pan-cho. But experience was on Schroeder's side. His overhead was deadly; Pancho's was erratic. The young champ, anxious to show off before the home crowd...
Parker, the model of tennis concentration, tried to shut out the partisan crowd from his consciousness. ("It was like a bullfight. I was the bull") But Parker couldn't handle Pancho's powerful but erratic serve or his incessant volleying attack. With a happy grin on his handsome...
Power v. Style. The near-capacity crowd watching the semi-finals next day saw a study in contrasts. The first was a slugging match in which Gonzales and chunky, 26-year-old Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia slammed a total of 43 service aces at each other. Pancho wore him out...