Word: nakano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the old days when Kumagae and Shimizu * were playing for the Rising Sun. Non-playing Captain Ichiya ("Ichy") Kumagae, now 60, remembering those better days, grinned as of old, but he was a little chagrined. Said he: "Not good. We need more international experience. Nakano was on top of Savitt and let him off the hook. To me, that is not smart tennis...
...never-say-die competitor himself, Ichy was stretching a point. Stocky (5 ft. 5 in., 140 Ibs.) Fumiteru Nakano, 36, was no match for Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt, 24. Nakano did have Savitt on the run (five set 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...
...doubles next day, the U.S. veteran (32) Bill Talbert and young (20) Tony Trabert, unbeaten over a two-year span, made short work (67 min.) of the Japanese pair of Nakano and Goro Fujikura. After breezing through the first two, 6-0, 6-2, the U.S. pair ran into trouble, trailed 1-4 in the third set, but finally...
...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...