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...Cooper was like Hewitt in the sense that his game lacked weapons but he wouldn't go away. "I made a point of being really fit," he says. "I got a bit of ribbing from a few of the players for over-training. Frank Sedgman was my idol, and Sedg did a lot of gym work. He was pretty scrawny as a lad and built himself up into a strong physical specimen. So I sort of did what he did." Though his name doesn't resonate today like those of some of his contemporaries, Cooper for a time was king...
...demure off court, she is a green-eyed blonde with a fondness for gourmet cooking and fashion design. Maggie grew up in Albury, New South Wales, playing tennis against the boys. At 15 she had collected so many trophies that her parents sent her off to train with Frank Sedgman in Melbourne. At 17 she became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship. Two years later she was ranked the world's No. 1 women's player...
...tennis player in the world." There have been disbelievers from time to time: in 1955 the promoters of one tour guaranteed Tony Trabert $75,000 and Gonzalez only $15,000. An enraged Pancho told his opponent: "You'd better get used to losing." Trabert did. So did Frank Sedgman, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, as Gonzalez won the world professional championship every year from 1953 through 1959 and again in 1961. Some of the match-ups were so lopsided that promoters asked Gonzalez to "ease up a little." That was like asking an angry jungle cat to claw gently...
...amateurism and site of the U.S. National grass court championships, voted to convert the Nationals into a U.S. Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest living from their sport -as golfers do - seemed pretty good to the younger amateurs...
...time she was 15, Margaret had already won 60 tennis trophies. One year later, Frank Sedgman, perhaps the best tennis player Australia has ever produced, undertook to coach her through the hard-to-cross gap that separates excellence from greatness. Under Sedgman's coaching, she ran, lifted weights, avoided boy friends. "They don't mix with tennis," she explains. In 1960, at 17, she upset Brazil's Maria Bueno in the finals, became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship...