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...result threw the U.S. line-up for the Cup matches against Australia into another tailspin. It was obvious that the U.S. doubles team, which had been counted on to upset the flashy Aussies, was not up to scratch. Captain Shields, who had sidelined his two top singles players, Dick Savitt and Vic Seixas, would just as obviously have to start thinking about some new combinations. A fortnight before the big test, Australian Captain Harry Hopman was elaborately unworried: "I saw nothing in the play to frighten members of Australia's Davis Cup squad...
Even the U.S. singles picture was brightening. Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt appeared to be rounding into top form as he whipped Lefthander Mervyn Rose, Australia's No. 3, in a five-set quarterfinal. Savitt looked even stronger as he blasted McGregor, the Aussies' No. 2, in a straight-set semifinal. That set the Stage for a long-waited showdown with Aussie No. 1, Frank Sedgman...
...every Gamesman knows, the final score is the proof of the gambit. With Sedgman displaying the same whirlwind form that won him the U.S. title, he took just 58 minutes to give Savitt as sound a thrashing as the Wimbledon champion has taken in years. The score: 8-6, 6-0, 6-4. The result, on the eve of the U.S.-Sweden zone finals, made good gamesman Hopman a likely candidate to go down in Gamesman history with such famed experts as Frith-Morteroy (master of the art of Countering the Crock), Edward Grice (specialist in the Secondary Hamper...
...3.Dick Savitt...
With two-thirds of his paper team up the chimney, non-playing captain Frank Shields now has a squad that might well have its hands full with little Sweden in the interzone final. Remaining members: Savitt; Vic Seixas, who lost the U.S. championship to Australia's Frank Sedgman in straight sets; Budge Patty, who has never regained the touch that made him 1950 Wimbledon champion; and Hamilton Richardson, 18-year-old former junior champion. Shields says he has one hope left: the chance of the Navy's transferring Trabert to Australia for temporary duty just at Davis...