Word: kumamaru
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...points) in the first set, finally dropped it 7-5, then stuck grimly to the base line while Savitt pounded out the next two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Young (22) Herb Flam, the U.S.'s second-ranking player and a tireless retriever, beat the Japanese champion, Jiro Kumamaru, at his own game, the base-line duel. Flam, too, had a tough time in the first set, but won it 7-5. Playing more aggressively against his 29-year-old rival, Flam whipped through the second at love, won the third, mainly from the base line...
...final matches were just a formality. In stifling heat (three spectators collapsed), Trabert beat Nakano, 6-4, 7-5, 6-0; Savitt beat Kumamaru, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Though the Japanese did not distinguish themselves on the slow courts at Louisville, U.S. tennis fans will get a chance to see their stubborn base-line play on the faster grass of the tennis circuit (Southampton, Orange, Newport and the Nationals at Longwood and Forest Hills). And Ichy is looking ahead. He figures that in another couple of years the younger Japanese players will...
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