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> Victor Seixas, 18-year-old University of North Carolina freshman; the North & South Singles tennis championship; defeating Harris Everett, another Tarheel, in the final, 2-6, 6-8, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2; at Pinehurst, N.C. Since Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn and Wayne Sabin have turned...
Clowning Frank Kovacs: his first match as a professional tennist; defeating Don Budge, onetime nonpareil; 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; before a crowd of 11,000; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs...
"Amateur tennis stinks-there's no money in it any more." With this overhead smash, 21-year-old Frank Kovacs, second-ranking tennist in the U.S., turned pro last week. So did 23-year-old Bobby Riggs, U.S. No. 1. For 22 weeks, starting Dec. 26 in Manhattan'...
NEW YORK--Bobby Riggs of Chicago, national amateur tennis champion, and his runner-up, Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal., turned professional today for guarantees of $25,000 each.
About the only clowning Frank Kovacs has permitted himself this year is to develop a "cosmic" forehand. Last week a spectator was heard to remark that Bobby Riggs knew how to take the "s" out of "cosmic."