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...peak. Dick whipped U.S. Champion Larsen (6-1, 6-4, 6-4) in the quarterfinals. But his big test did not come until his semi-final match with dogged Herb Flam, another fighter and a player who relies on agility and retrieving rather than power. In twelve meetings, Savitt had never beaten Flam. When Flam won the first set, 6-1, it looked like the same old story. The second set was a backbreaker, 15-13, and Savitt won it after trailing 1-5. After that it was easy (6-3, 6-2). With the added momentum that victory gave...
...Savitt flew home the next day. He had had five solid months of tennis campaigning, all out of the U.S. The Clay Court championships were being played that week in Chicago, and the tennis bigwigs naturally wanted Dick there: the Wimbledon champion would be a big drawing card. He flatly refused to go. He needed a rest, and he knew it. He did not play again until his Davis Cup debut against Japan. Savitt is always edgy before an important match, and, unlike most of the other players, is given to moments of introspection and brooding. Facing a test that...
...Savitt will have a fight on his hands at Forest Hills this week. In the old days there were only three or four really top-notch players. Mulloy told Savitt: "In the '30s, I never worried much about a match in the quarter-finals." Today, says Dick, "you have to worry about a lot of people. One year there might be 20 guys who, if they beat you, you don't feel bad. Last year there were about three for me. This year there's nobody." Dick's worries (in order): 1) Sedgman and Trabert...
...does Dick Savitt, and, win or lose next week, he will put on the kind of dogged, fighting display that brought the crowds out to watch the Tildens, Johnstons, Vineses, Perrys and Budges in their prime. Savitt's game is the "big" game, and he is the kind of player who can never be counted out until the final point. Savitt is a fighter, an attacker, and that's what the crowds like...
...lose, Savitt is one of the men Frank Shields is counting on to bring the Davis Cup back from Australia. Sweden, with tough Lennart Bergelin (who gave the Australians a scare by winning both his singles matches last year), must be coped with this December before the U.S. can meet the Australians. Savitt has beaten Bergelin, and he has proved that he has the Australians' number.After the matches with Canada, Shields said: "All I know for certain right now is that Dick Savitt will play singles, and Tony Trabert will be my left court man in doubles." Shields...