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...team showed up next day hoping to stave off defeat in the doubles. As at Sydney, Trabert and Seixas played better together than apart, but they were still not good enough. They took the first set in a tenterhooks service duel, 14-12, against Hoad and steady Rex Hartwig, who at 26 is the old man of the Aussie team. But from then on the U.S. team was usually in trouble, striving to break through service. Trabert-Seixas occasionally shook Hoad with their "crossover" signal, but they could not shake Shotmaker Hartwig...
Last Stand. Head's cannon ball and Hartwig's fine backhand won two quick sets despite one diehard net play from a reinvigorated Seixas. Coming back with his best performance of the afternoon, Trabert belted a two-handed push volley past the astonished Australians, smashed ahead to win the fourth set and tie up the match...
...crucial fifth set, Trabert and Seixas thrice came within a stroke of breaking Head's service. But the Aussies did not falter. The end came when Seixas, serving, put two in the net. His next serve was successfully returned by Head's erratic backhand. Hartwig's backhand volley drove one in the alley; Trabert reached for it, slid to the grass, and the game was over. The match and the Davis Cup were Australia's. Said Australia's balding, jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman: "We are very much relieved...
...than either is as a singles player, won the doubles, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8, and clinched the cup. Then, with the remaining two singles matches a mere formality, Seixas and Trabert promptly went to pieces again. They played oafish tennis, and Australia saved face. Rex Hartwig beat Seixas in four sets and Rosewall beat Trabert in three...
...Sydney, Australia, Tony Trabert and Ham Richardson, the two top-seeded Americans in the New South Wales tennis championship, put on a miserable performance and were knocked out in early rounds. Winner in the all-Australian final: Rex Hartwig over left-hander Mervyn Rose...