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...erratic McKinley routed the No. 1 man on Mexico's team, Rafael Osuna, in straight sets, 6-2, 7-5, 6-3. No matter that the U.S. team's No. 2 player, Jon Douglas, lost a tough, five-set match to Mexico's veteran Antonio Palafox. The U.S. was favored in the doubles, and McKinley seemed sharp enough to win his second singles match, which would give the U.S. at least a 3-2 edge...
...their worst habits with them; they were playing unreliable, unpredictable tennis. Far off form last week, Vic Seixas, the new U.S. champion, was knocked out in the quarter finals of Mexico City's Pan-American tournament. (The week before, Seixas had been beaten by Mexico's Gustavo Palafox in Davis Cup competition.) Temperamental Art Larsen let Mexican officiating get under his skin, lost out in the semifinals. Only Tony Trabert held his own against the mediocre competition, and at week's end he won the title...
...Australian championship this year. Later, in the French championships, he was put out early by the U.S.'s tenth-ranking Vic Seixas. At Wimbledon, Czech Jaroslav Drobny knocked him off in the fourth round. In a Davis Cup interzone mat^h this summer, Mexico's Gustavo Palafox defeated him. Nonetheless, last week, as the Aussies made their fourth reach for the big cup since V-J day, Team Captain Harry Hopman named McGregor for the singles matches. In the first day's play, he met famed Ted Schroeder, No. 1 U.S. amateur...