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...Lacoste, and marketed in the U.S. by the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Gene Scott, 29, a Manhattan lawyer who never before had gotten past the quarter-finals of any major tournament, astounded the experts by reaching the semifinals before losing to Australia's top-seeded John Newcombe. Clark Graebner, a 23-year-old Ohioan who only two months ago was eliminated in the very first round of the national clay-court championships, got all the way to the finals, where he gave Newcombe a tussle before succumbing...
...tennis players were not even competing in the Nationals. They are all professionals, and in tennis, unlike golf, pros are never permitted to compete against amateurs-on the theory, presumably, that such "amateurs" as Australia's Roy Emerson, who was upset by the U.S.'s Clark Graebner in last week's quarterfinals at Forest Hills, would sully themselves by associating with people who openly play for pay. Emerson himself commands $10,000 a year as a "public relations consultant" for Philip Morris, another $6,000 as a "racket consultant" for Slazengers' sporting-goods firm, plus...
Double Fault. Not even a home-court advantage figured to be much help to Olvera and Guzman when it came to playing the likes of Ashe, Cliff Richey and the U.S. doubles team of Marty Riessen and Clark Graebner-all of whom are veterans of the international circuit. Richey got the U.S. off to a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series by beating Guzman, 6-2, 2-6, 8-6, 6-4. But what happened after that was incredible. Ashe, who had not lost a single set in Davis Cup play this year, lost three...
Although he ranks No. 3 in the U.S., after Ashe and Ohio's Clark Graebner, Pasarell has beaten Ashe more times than he has lost to him. He turned the trick again last week in the finals of the U.S. Indoor Championships at Salisbury, Md.-a tournament that Ashe desperately wanted to win because it was his last hope before going into the Army five days later. With his victory, Pasarell became the first player in 31 years to take the indoor title twice...
Only Frustration. Pasarell needed all the mental muscle he could muster last week. To get into the finals, he had to beat France's Daniel Contet, Britain's Graham Stilwell, Denmark's Torben Ulrich, California's Stan Smith and Graebner. He got by them all. Against Ashe, Pasarell had to use his brain instead of his bomb when he hit a wild streak and could not find the court with his first serve. He switched tactics by easing up, angling his serves wide into the corners, and rushing the net consistently. Time after time, he caught...