Word: savitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father and son practiced by the hour, and the boy learned fast. In 1956 the Woods won the national father-and-son championship, played so well together that U.S. Star Dick Savitt says: "They may well have been the finest father-and-son team of all time." In the winter of 1957, the Woods won the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the national indoors by beating Irv Dorfman and Kurt Nielsen. That was a big one. "I saw during that match that Sid had a chance some day of becoming an international player," says the father...
...Combining an explosive service with flat, whistling ground strokes, Manhattan Oilman Richard Savitt, 33, returned from retirement long enough to trounce California's Whitney Reed, 6-2, 11-9, 6-3, win his third National Indoor tennis championship, retire the tournament's 25-year-old trophy...