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...Australia: the Davis Cup, for the eleventh time in the last 13 years, by trimming Mexico, 5-0, on Brisbane's Milton Courts. Lefthanders Rod Laver and Neale Fraser each won two singles matches; Laver teamed with Roy Emerson to defeat Mexico's Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox in a straight-sets doubles match that lasted only 70 min. At the closing ceremony, Mexican Captain Pancho Contreras wistfully fondled the Davis Cup, announced that his team would be back to try again. Yelled one Down Under fan, bored with yet another victory: "I hope you bloody well...
...catlike around a backhand to take it on his forehand. Krishnan carried the match to five sets, got a breather when the match was interrupted in the fourth set because of darkness. But that was it. Next day Osuna polished him off, then teamed with No. 2 Mexican Antonio Palafox to win the doubles to lead the jubilant squad to a 5-0 runaway...
...Aussies may prove too much for the Mexicans when they meet in Brisbane later this month. But as the first Latin American team ever to reach the challenge round, Osuna and Palafox will at least reign as the sentimental favorites across the western hemisphere. They may even take a set or two from the usually invincible Aussies, who last year slaughtered Italy in straight matches...
...Mexico's brilliant but erratic Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox: a tense, 3-2 victory over Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist in the Davis Cup Interzone semifinals at Mexico City. Palafox lost both his singles matches, but teamed with Osuna to win the doubles in four sets, and Osuna outlasted Lundquist 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the deciding singles match. Next stop for the Mexicans: New Delhi, where they will play India for the right to take on Australia next month in the challenge round...
...list of U.S. players. In the first set, the U.S. had a 4-2 lead when Ralston's service fell apart. For the first time in Davis Cup memory, a game was lost at love on four successive double faults. Quick to seize the advantage, Osuna and Palafox fought back to salvage the set, 8-6. In the second set, the hapless Ralston served eight more double faults-overshooting the service line. All told, he served a grand total of 18 double faults, surely a record in Davis Cup competition. Though McKinley-and Ralston, too-fought gamely...