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Bulwark of the U.S. team, despite a month-long layoff with a strained shoulder muscle, was Tony Trabert. He had won 16 of his last 18 tournaments, including the Wimbledon and French championships. At first it seemed that he might beat cocky, towheaded Lew Hoad, Australia's rocket-launcher. He took the first set, 6-4. Then Hoad, in his finest form in two years, began slamming out a cannonball serve that Trabert could not match or break. Bothered by a blister on his racket hand, Trabert weakened in the third set, dropped five straight games. In the fourth...
...coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, Wimbledon's paunchy but powerful Defending Champion Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt, Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Sweden's Davidson, Italy's high-touted Pietrangeli...
Married. Lewis Hoad, 20, Australian Davis Cup star famed for his "big" game; and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's leading women tennis players; at Wimbledon, England...
...taxi. Nevertheless, he was relieved that he was not due to play first (he had been beaten in the opening singles match last year). But eager-beaver Tony was bursting for action. The luck of the draw had spared Seixas, pitted Trabert against Australia's brilliant Lew Hoad in the singles opener. Trabert and Hoad divided the first two sets. In the next, Hoad had Tony sweating at set-point, but lost his chance on a cross-court shot that went out. Hardhitting Tony raised his game a notch, won the set by 12-10, then easily romped...
...other hand, the Aussies' Hoad and Rosewall have not yet reached their peak...