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...used his checkbook to buy the services of many a top amateur star, and has repeatedly riddled amateur ranks and Davis Cup hopes. Last week Jack Kramer signed top U.S. Amateur Tony Trabert, 25, to a pro contract. He was also bidding strongly to get the Australian stars, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, into the pro ranks...
...these success stories Promoter Kramer should have a few more to add after his next pro tour is over. Trabert is guaranteed $75,000, Hoad and Rosewall, if they accept, $45,000 apiece. Promoter Kramer expects to net the better part of $250,000 after paying expenses...
After their dismal showing in the Davis Cup challenge round, U.S. tennis players hardly figured to stand a chance in their own national championship. Australia's Lew Hoad, with his big, booming game, and Ken Rosewall, with his classic ground shots, looked too hot to handle. Ex-Champions Seixas and Trabert should have been completely outclassed...
...semifinal, against Seixas, Rosewall looked even better than he did playing for the cup. Vic never had a chance, and he seemed to know it. All he could do was make a gentlemanly speech about losing to a better player. It was Hoad who first upset the dope. Facing a rejuvenated Trabert, he took three games and then fell apart. He gave the match away...
Behind 2-0, the U.S. 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...