Word: sedgman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran doubles pair of Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont and Louise Brough, four-time Wimbledon champions, 6-3, 13-11. Doris and Australia's Frank Sedgmari won the mixed-doubles title, 7-5, 6-2, from the Australian team of Mervyn Rose and Mrs. Nancye Wynne Bolton. Sedgman and McGregor successfully defended their title by downing Drobny and South Africa's Eric Sturgess...
...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...
...Eric Sturgess of South Africa, (see above), the London grass court championship, over Australia's Frank Sedgman, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; the U.S.'s Shirley Fry, the women's title, over U.S. Indoor Champion Nancy Chaffee, 6-3, 8-6; at London...
...Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, fell before the patient craftiness of the two aging veterans...
...FRANK SEDGMAN, 23, seeded No. 1 at Wimbledon this year, the stocky two-time Australian champion and Davis Cup mainstay, whose siege-gun game, when he is "up," is probably the amateur world's best...