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Rosewall has been playing the same sort of stylish tennis since the '50s, when he and another Australian teenager, Lew Hoad, were beating U.S. Davis Cup teams manned by Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert. It has helped him win major titles over an incredible span: the U.S. championship in 1956 and again in 1970; the French championship in 1953 and 1968; the Australian championship four times, the first in 1953 and the most recent just this year...
...world." There have been disbelievers from time to time: in 1955 the promoters of one tour guaranteed Tony Trabert $75,000 and Gonzalez only $15,000. An enraged Pancho told his opponent: "You'd better get used to losing." Trabert did. So did Frank Sedgman, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, as Gonzalez won the world professional championship every year from 1953 through 1959 and again in 1961. Some of the match-ups were so lopsided that promoters asked Gonzalez to "ease up a little." That was like asking an angry jungle cat to claw gently. Jack Kramer once said...
First highly seeded pro to fall was No. 8, Pancho Gonzales, beaten by Alexander Metreveli, an unseeded Russian who was happy just "to play against such famous men as Gonzales." After Pancho, the deluge. Australia's Lew Hoad (No. 7) was dumped by South Africa's Bob Hewitt, also unseeded; Aussie Roy Emerson (No. 5) lost to The Netherlands' Tom Okker, and Spain's Andres Gimeno (No. 3) went down before Ray Moore, a long-haired, self-styled hippie, who ranks only No. 3 in his home country of South Africa...
...shrine of amateurism and site of the U.S. National grass court championships, voted to convert the Nationals into a U.S. Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest living from their sport -as golfers do - seemed pretty good to the younger amateurs...
...slight (5 ft. 7 in.), polite Ken Rosewall, also an Australian and evidently a has-been at 31, since Laver had pushed him off the top of the heap last year. In the quarterfinals, Gonzales gave Rosewall something to think about by trouncing his onetime Davis Cup twin, Lew Hoad, 31, by a decisive...