Word: sedgman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Promoter-Player Jack Kramer finished his professional tennis tour last May, he first jotted down the score that interested him most: an $860,000 gross. Then he added up a secondary score: he had beaten Australia's Frank Sedgman 54 matches to 41, and had paid Sedgman more than $125,000 for taking the lumps. For this season, Player Kramer decided to stick to being Promoter Kramer...
...After trouncing U.S. Davis Cuppers Seixas and Trabert, Australia's Sedgman and McGregor...
...Frank Sedgman had a "big game," then Kramer's was monolithic. Anything the Aussic could do, the 31 year old world's pro champ could do better, as he won, 6-1, 6-2, at the Garden last night...
...Sedgman lost the, match but picked up the $2,000 check he gets five nights a week. This is better than the $20 per week he earned as the world's greatest. amateur, even including his controversial $12,300 wedding gift. The troupe as a whole has grossed over $300,000 after only a third of its 80-city tour...
...preliminary match, Sedgman's Aussic sidekick, Ken McGregor, steadied down his cantankerous backhand to edge Pancho Seguro, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. The Down Under champ's win was but his sixth against 20 losses during the tour and came on the seventh service break of the final...