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...place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...
This year, things have been looking up for Hoad. At 24, he is seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
...form, Hoad managed to beat Gonzales on this year's tour, 15 matches to 13. But Hoad still consistently lost to Gonzales in key tournaments. And because Pancho mopped up the other touring pros-Aussies Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson-he came out with top prize money ($29,150), thereby retained his pro championship under Promoter Jack Kramer's frankly capitalistic scheme of rankings...
Born. To Lew Hoad, 23, Australian pro tennis star, and Jennifer Hoad, 23: their second child, second daughter; in Melbourne. Weight...
This type of percentage tennis is something Hoad learned from Promoter Kramer. At week's end it was still paying off for him as he beat Pancho, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6, to take a 6-5 lead on the tour. It was obviously paying off for Big Jake too. As he counted crowd after capacity crowd, he happily predicted that he would come home with a whopping profit...