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...soon as he sinks into an airplane seat, voraciously gobbles steaks and vitamin pills. He is also hungry to improve his game. "From Pancho Gonzales," says Gimeno, "I learn to throw the ball further in front of me when I serve, so I get more power. From Lew Hoad I learn to hit the ball harder. But always from myself I learn to fight like a lion." Gimeno is assured of a lion's share of the kitty: Promoter Kramer is paying him $50,000 for his first three years on the tour, plus 15% of the gate...
...long ago, an English music critic tagged U.S. Pianist Shura Cherkassky with an odd title: "Lew Hoad of the Piano." Like Tennis Player Hoad, explained the critic, Cherkassky was "capable of astonishing feats and of hardly less astonishing lapses." Cherkassky's feats, like Hoad's, have so outnumbered his lapses that he has become one of the most sought-after artists on the European concert circuit. Last week he demonstrated why: with service under firm control and ground strokes booming, he swept through a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Herbert von Karajan...
...Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids of Pro Promoter Jack Kramer on Australia's crack performers have lopped off amateur stars as fast as they emerged. Three years ago an erratic, second-string southpaw named Neale Fraser was ranked well behind Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, was later overshadowed by Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper. But with all four lured away by Kramer, Fraser was left as Australia's best. Yet last week Fraser had little trouble blazing his way to the finals with his spinning serve. Across the net was Peru...
Last week, pointedly ignoring each other off the court, the scowling Gonzales and the deadpan Hoad renewed their private duel at the $15,000 Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills, N.Y. "I think I'm as good as he is," declared Hoad, "and I know he thinks the same." For Gonzales, who has been gobbling vitamin pills to offset the weariness that plagued him earlier this year, the tournament was a chance to prove that he was still the greatest player in the world. Said Pancho: "I feel fit, very fit. Until Hoad beats...
...when the match was over, Gonzales had plenty of cause to be worried. At the peak of his game, Lew Hoad anticipated returns like a mind reader, served with devastating power, and blasted aging Pancho off the court. 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. The old king of the tennis world had a young pretender to contend with...