Word: savitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most hopeful young hopefuls of U.S. tennis-Dick Savitt, 24, and Tony Trabert, 20-both came a cropper last week in the Eastern Grass Court championships, at Orange, N.J. In each case an old tennis hand was the obstacle that sent the youngsters arsy-versy: Gardnar Mulloy, 37, and Billy Talbert...
...Savitt, Australian and Wimbledon champion, won the first two sets against Mulloy, 6-4, 6-3, with a display of the all-court game and big serve that had carried him to past triumphs, and seemed well on his way to running out the match. Then the fire went out of his game, and he dropped the third...
Mulloy, rested by the intermission, mixed canny drop shots and deep drives in the fourth set, and jumped to a 4-1 lead. In the sixth game, Savitt was unnerved by an apparently overeager baseline judge who called, loud & clear, a succession of foot faults. Savitt glowered at the linesman, stalked over to the umpire and demanded that the offending linesman be removed-presumably for incompetence. When his request was not granted, logically enough, Savitt, fuming inwardly, threw the next game and the set, by deliberately driving four straight balls, into the net. The crowd booed...
...more impressive than ever as he whipped the U.S.'s No. 2 player, Herb Flam, 6-2, 10-8, 5-7, 6-3, in the Southampton final. This week Tony is seeded No. 2 in the Eastern Grass Court championships at Orange, N.J. to meet top-seeded Dick Savitt, Wimbledon champion...
...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...