Word: mcgregor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After trouncing U.S. Davis Cuppers Seixas and Trabert, Australia's Sedgman and McGregor...
...preliminary match, Sedgman's Aussic sidekick, Ken McGregor, steadied down his cantankerous backhand to edge Pancho Seguro, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. The Down Under champ's win was but his sixth against 20 losses during the tour and came on the seventh service break of the final...
...longtime rulers of the amateur tennis world, Australian Davis Cuppers Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor got so used to beating all comers that any defeat was considered something of an accident. Last week the young ex-amateur kings learned something about the hazards of their new trade. Making their professional debuts in Los Angeles and New York, Sedgman, 25, and McGregor, 23, smashed head on into Old Pros Jack Kramer and Pancho Segura, two 31-year-old tennis oldsters...
...this week rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) Ken McGregor had yet to win a set from bandy-legged little (5 ft. 6 in.) Pancho Segura; the Aussies were just holding their own in the doubles; and Sedgman had to come from behind, after taking one of the worst shellackings of his careei, to even his matches at two-all with Kramer...
Aussie tennis fans were understandably glum over the departure of their two top players. Only a year ago they had persuaded Sedgman to stay on as an amateur with a $12,000 "wedding gift" to his wife; this year Sedgman and McGregor were offered a string of filling stations, and insurance jobs guaranteeing them salaries of $11,225 a year within four years. But Sedgman was sure Australia had nothing to worry about: "We feel that Mervyn Rose, Lewis Hoad, Ken Rosewall and other youngsters will keep the Davis Cup in good hands." Now 25 and at the peak...