Word: savitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third time in 43 years, an American won the tennis championship of Australia. It was all a rude surprise to Australia-winner of the Davis Cup last fall and supposedly sitting serene in the tennis world for a long time to come. The Aussies figured without Dick Savitt...
...Savitt, 23, ranked No. 6 in the U.S., beat the two top Aussies, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, on successive days for the title...
...person least surprised by this outcome was Savitt's mother, back in Orange, N.J. Said she: "Dick never had much time to practice while he was in college [Cornell], and we don't believe he ever was able to get in shape for a tournament before he went to Australia...
...other Forest Hills finalist, Herb Flam, 22, was ranked No. 2, followed by Wimbledon Champion Budge Patty, 26, and U.S. Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 29. Others of the top ten: Gardnar Mulloy, Bill Talbert, Dick Savitt, Earl Cochell, Vic Seixas and Tom Brown...
Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...