Word: sedgman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Savitt, 23, ranked No. 6 in the U.S., beat the two top Aussies, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, on successive days for the title...
...this was that, by the Australian championship last week, Savitt was playing a "big game" with more style than he had ever shown before. Sedgman and McGregor repeatedly found his serves too hot to handle, and his base-line drives from forehand and backhand kept them more often than not on the defensive. It took him five sets against Sedgman (2-6, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4), four against McGregor...
...Pinehurst, N.C., Slammin' Sam Snead over the field, with a 13-under-par 275, for his second consecutive (third altogether)North and South open golf title. ¶ In Brisbane, Australian Tennis Champion Frank Sedgman over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, a smashing, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory for the Queensland title. ¶ In Baltimore, the Greentree Stable's One Hitter, twice conqueror of Noor, over a second-rate field for the winner-take-all $15,000 Pimlico Special. ¶ In Manhattan, perennial (22 years) world Court Tennis Champion Pierre Etchebaster (TIME, Dec. 26) over Challenger Alastair Martin...
Schroeder congratulated Larsen on an improved game. Larsen explained his failure: "I lost my touch." In the final, against Australian Champion Frank Sedgman, Schroeder lost his touch too, and with it the Southwest title...
...just trounced the U.S. (four matches to one) for the Davis Cup. But in the National Singles last week, the Aussies played like men still in a happy trance over winning the international cup, and as if anything else was anticlimax. By the quarterfinals, the Australian first-liners-Frank Sedgman, Jack Bromwich and Ken McGregor -had all been upset by less-favored Americans...