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...sellout crowd of 13,000 jammed into the West Side Tennis Club stadium at Forest Hills last week for the semifinals of the national championship tournament; the biggest U.S. tennis gallery since 1946 was primed for white-hot competition. One bracket pitted Australian Frank Sedgman against Art Larsen, the flashy, unpredictable U.S. champ; the other match paired husky Dick Savitt, who had earned his No. 1 seeded position by knocking off the Australian and Wimbledon titles, against Vic Seixas, flashing the best play of his five-year career...
What followed was some remarkable tennis and a big letdown. Sedgman, in superb condition, took exactly 49 minutes to blow Larsen off the court, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. Tennis buffs could not recall another time in the 70-year history of the men's tournament when the U.S. champion had taken such a one-sided thrashing. It was hard to say whether any part of Sedgman's game was notably better than the rest as he fed Larsen a paralyzing assortment of burning serves, deadly volleys and deep, sure ground strokes...
...Next day Sedgman warmed up for a game or two, tried Seixas out, then cut loose with a well-rounded attack that collapsed Vic's defense and rolled him up, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1, in 48 minutes, one less than for Larsen. Said Sedgman, with massive understatement: "I've been playing pretty well in this tournament...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor over Australia's Mervyn Rose and Don Candy, 10-8, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, the postponed final of the U.S. National Doubles championship; at Forest Hills...
...Taken, this week, from the U.S. when Sedgman & McGregor and Don Candy & Mervyn Rose made it an all-Australian final...