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Default. That was not the first time Nastase has annoyed his fellow touring pros. In Paris last December he used similar antics to needle Cliff Richey into flubbing a match. A month later Nastase ran into an American with a temperament equal to his own: Clark Graebner. The two traded insults; suddenly, Graebner leaped over the net and grabbed Nastase. Order was restored and the set completed, but the rattled Rumanian then walked off the court and defaulted the match...
...training. In 1969, when All American Sports Inc. opened its first three-week tennis camp in Beaver Dam, Wis., 20 children attended. This summer there are four All American camps with 670 children and 626 adults learning the game. Above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, Tennis Pro Clark Graebner has set up a clinic which last year attracted 5,000 students to its 24-hr.-day, seven-day-week sessions. For $50, tennis buffs get eight hours of concentrated practice with a ball machine and videotape recordings to see what went wrong. There are also more lavish teaching setups...
...also written-critical opinion of John McPhee may be divided. But he is by far the best tennis writer ever, and this illustrated book demonstrates that skill nearly as well as McPhee's earlier book, Levels of the Game. That classic turned Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner into the Hector and Achilles of a center-court Trojan War, and left readers as absorbed, and exhausted, as if they had just sweated and stroked and prayed their way through a lifetime of championship tennis...
...Grand Prix Masters. Two months ago in London, he bested Newcombe to win the Queen's Club Open, then came within a few shots of beating him again two weeks later in a furious five-set finals match at Wimbledon. At the U.S. Open, while Players Clark Graebner and Dennis Ralston were calling the officials "idiotic" and "ridiculous" for banning racket throwing and abusive language on the court, Smith went serenely on his wav, demolishing everyone he met. "Stan," says his doubles partner, Erik Van Dillen, "talks with his racket...
...Australian doubles team withstood a comeback by Ashe and Graebner to bring the Aussies within one victory of winning the 811,000 first prize. taking the match...