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...Wimbledon it rained, rained, rained, rotting the roses and mildewing many a seeded reputation. Down fast went U.S. Oldsters Budge Patty, 34, and Gardnar Mulloy, 44. Still a hope in the quarterfinals was robustious Ohioan Barry MacKay, 22. But Australia's mercurial Mervyn Rose caught MacKay slew-footed with teasing volleys and adroitly angled passing shots, eliminated him 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Though Rose wilted in a semifinal rout by Fellow Aussie Ashley Cooper, the men's final was an Australian crawl again for the third straight year, with Cooper beating Teammate Neale Fraser after...
...Rosewall on an erratic day and forced him to go five sets to win. Steady Vic Seixas repeated his Wimbledon finals victory over Denmark's Kurt Nielsen only after wavering before the Dane's superb volleying and dropping a set. Although young Lew Hoad sank Gardnar Mulloy, the grand old (39) man of U.S. tennis, in straight sets, Mulloy, in a sprightly burst of lost youth, carried the third to 11-9. Grinning wryly, Mulloy croaked: "I should have been playing his father...
...victory was too much to ask from a man of Mulloy's years, was it also too big an order for young Rosewall and Hoad? The semifinals seemed to produce a firm answer. In top physical shape, thanks to Coach Harry Hopman's strict meat-and-sleep training rules, the Australians nonetheless sometimes seemed mentally over-wound, as if their play had become work. Facing powerful Lew Hoad, whose service is one of the fastest in amateur tennis, Vic Seixas showed the same flair for court tactics he demonstrated this year at Wimbledon. It was a net-rushing...
...court manners; there was no clowning or glowering. "One should sing as the birds one is with," he explained. Then, in a succession of upsets, he knocked three top-seeded stars out of the tournament. In each case, his victim had a physical alibi: the U.S.'s Gardnar Mulloy (No. 5) a leg cramp, Australia's Ken Rosewall (No. 1) a queasy stomach, Czech-born Jaroslav Drobny (No. 4) a wrenched leg muscle. Nonetheless, there Nielsen was: a Wimbledon finalist, and the first unseeded one since...
...which the London Daily Mirror retorted: "It's a game, Mulloy. It's a game. Games are meant to be for fun. Games are played for pleasure...