Word: hopman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis Cup. The best men U.S. Captain Bill Talbert could muster for the challenge round against Australia were young (22) Barry MacKay, U.S. intercollegiate champion, and Old (34) Master Vic Seixas, who left his best tennis on the center court at Forest Hills back in 1954. Aussie Captain Harry Hopman made the most of a bountiful supply of stars by calling on 22-year-old Mai Anderson, proud owner of the U.S. championship, and Ashley Cooper, another youngster (21) with years of experience. Still, Bill Talbert talked like a man who did not plan on losing. "The team," said...
...before he lost, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 7-9, 6-3. After that, the cup slid swiftly out of reach. Cooper pinned Seixas to the base line and whipped the U.S. veteran in a match that went the unimpressively full five sets. Next day, in the doubles, Hopman took Mervyn Rose, 27, out of the Davis Cup doghouse, where he has lingered ever since losing two singles matches in 1951, teamed him with Anderson and clinched the cup with an easy, three-set victory over Seixas and MacKay...
...matches, and fought hard to save themselves from an embarrassing shutout. Seixas outlasted Anderson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 0-6, 13-11, and MacKay, no longer bothered by cup competition jitters, beat back Cooper, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Said happy Harry Hopman: "You may consider my grip on the Davis Cup slippery." Somehow he managed to say it with a straight face...
...year long." Through all the excitement, eleven poker-faced Russians took in the matches and tried some volleying of their own. Their tennis was dreadful, but they were not embarrassed. They had come to learn, not to show off. The Russians were dickering with Australia's Harry Hopman and Britain's Fred Perry to come to Moscow and teach the art of peaceful competition on the tennis court. "We are a long way from Head's game," admitted one of the tourists. "But just wait...
...returned by Head's erratic backhand. Hartwig's backhand volley drove one in the alley; Trabert reached for it, slid to the grass, and the game was over. The match and the Davis Cup were Australia's. Said Australia's balding, jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman: "We are very much relieved...