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Neither of India's two challengers, Ramanathan Krishnan and Jaideep Mukherjea, had ever won a major tournament; and neither was ranked. Krishnan and Mukherjea had reached the Challenge Round by beating a couple of similarly unranked Brazilians-who had upset a heavily favored U.S. squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: The Jaws | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Maybe so. But in tennis, Australia springs eternal. Displaying the form that has won him two Wimbledon titles, four Australian championships, a U.S. and a French championship in the last four years, Emerson swept both of his singles matches in straight sets-polishing off Mukherjea in 66 min., Krishnan in 95 min. Fred Stolle's "big" serve, the biggest in the amateur game, did the rest. Aceing Krishnan twelve times and Mukherjea 20 times, Stolle won the other two singles matches to give the Davis Cup to Australia for the 21st time and the 14th in the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: The Jaws | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...Calcutta's South Club. After beating the U.S. last month, Brazil's Edison Mandarine, 25, and Thomaz Koch, 21, might have expected to wipe up the court with the Indians. That expectation reckoned without Ramanathan Krishnan, 29. Krishnan won one singles match from Mandarine, teamed with Jaideep Mukherjea to take the doubles, and wrapped it up in a marathon match against Koch 3-6, 6-4, 10-12, 7-5, 6-2. That gives India the honor of challenging Australia on Dec. 26-and then returning home to wait for next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scoreboard: Who Won Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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