Word: sedgman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...amateur tennis, says: "Laver has more equipment than Budge ever had. He would have beaten Budge." Professional Promoter Jack Kramer, who as an amateur got halfway to a grand slam in 1947, takes a somewhat cooler view: "Right now he's not in Budge's class. Sedgman, Gonzales, Hoad, Rosewall, Segura, even Trabert, who's 32, could beat Laver. When Laver turns pro, he's going to get beaten just like every other amateur champion who turned pro. I think I was the last guy who turned pro and won right away." At Forest Hills...
...three straight years, the big silver punch bowl belonged to Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor. Perhaps the best all-round shotmaker Australia has ever produced. Sedgman still plays part-time pro tennis, owns a gymnasium and squash courts in Melbourne. McGregor now runs an Adelaide sporting goods store...
...During the four years that they took over from Sedgman and McGregor, Australia's brilliant Whiz Kids. Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, lost only once-to the U.S. in 1954. In 1957 both players turned pro. A power hitter with flat-trajectory ground strokes, Hoad is the logical successor to No. 1 Pro Pancho Gonzales. A master scrambler, possessor of the game's best backhand. Rosewall is a frequent winner on the rich pro circuit...