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Newspapers call him "High Priest Harry" and "Little Hitler," and a writer who has been trailing him around for years says, "You really have to know Harry Hopman to dislike him properly. You've heard of bad losers? Harry is a bad winner...
...least he is a winner. Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup, by beating the U.S., three matches to two. To be sure, that was not precisely the way Captain Hopman, 58, had planned it. "We'll win 4-1," he predicted before the challenge round started - but after the first two singles and the doubles, the upstart Americans led 2-1. Then came the crucial match between Australia's Fred Stolle, 26, and the U.S.'s talented and temperamental Dennis Ralston. Last year, when...
...Aussies did not take the abduction kindly. So off to Cleveland last week trotted two of Australia's finest: Roy Emerson, the world's No. 1-ranked amateur, and Fred Stolle, ranked No. 2. "We'll win 4 to 1," predicted Aussie Captain Harry Hopman, as always the soul of confidence-and not without cause...
...four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little man; but his greatest strength is his vicious ground game and the cunning way he masks his shots. With the unique ability to shift his racket at the last moment, he can hit a baseline drive flat, give...
...hoity was the 19-year-old Australian that she had decided to quit the touring Australian team for her own private tour, and was busily engaged in a feud with Team Manager Nell Hopman...