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...years ago, a gangling ball boy named Dick Savitt thought he was wasting his time fooling around on the courts of the Berkeley Tennis Club in Orange, NJ. He really wanted to be a big-league baseball player. Somehow it never worked out that way. Last week, some 3,000 miles from Yankee Stadium, Dick Savitt was still sidetracked from baseball, still up to his ears in tennis, but scarcely wasting his time. He was busy on the famed center court at Wimbledon, playing in the final round of the All-England championship...
...taken him the whole ten years to get there. Playing between chores as a ball boy did not give Savitt (rhymes with have it) anywhere near as much practice time as the youngsters in the year-round California tennis foundries. At Cornell, where he majored in economics and became captain of the tennis team, winters are rugged; Savitt's tennis developed slowly, not nearly as fast as his heavyweight boxer's body (6 ft. 3 in., 185 Ibs.). In his junior year (1949), slow-footed Dick Savitt won the Eastern Intercollegiates, mainly by overpowering his opponents...
Eager to Learn. Last year, as his footwork began to catch up with his booming power, Dick fought his way to the semifinals of the Nationals at Forest Hills. U.S. Champion Art Larsen stopped him cold, but Savitt was tagged as a comer, and ranked sixth. Last winter, Savitt went on a barnstorming trip to Australia.There he began to reach peak form, partly under the tutelage of Veteran Adrian Quist. Says Quist: "He was ceaselessly eager to learn and profited promptly from every fragment of advice." Savitt crowned his tour by winning the Australian Championship.* In the four-set final...
...Hamilton Richardson, 17, a second-round upset over Wimbledon's Defending Champion Budge Patty; in London. In his fourth round, the U.S. junior champion got a case of "center court shakes," lost to Brazilian Champion Armando Vieira. The semifinalists: The U.S.'s Dick Savitt (who defeated the U.S.'s Art Larsen in the quarterfinals) v. the U.S.'s Herb Flam (who defeated Australia's top-seeded Frank Sedgman); Australia's Ken McGregor (who defeated Sweden's Lennart Bergelin) v. South Africa's Eric Sturgess (who defeated Vieira...
...DICK SAVITT, 24, the U.S.'s Australian champion, a dogged slam-banger who has come far in the past year, but has also lost to Drobny six times out of seven...