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...quickly over. In one of the worst drubbings in U.S. tennis final history, tired Gardnar Mulloy went down-6-1, 6-2, 6-3. The match took only 47 minutes. Said Mulloy simply: "I'm sorry I messed up the final." Then he added: "Tennis players never die. Sedgman will be a year older next year...
Predictable though Sedgman's victory was, it pointed up two unpleasant facts about the state of U.S. tennis...
...with Bill Talbert), was making his first appearance in the finals. But the gallant, uphill fight against the youngsters of the U.S. and Australian teams was useless, and everybody in the stadium knew it. Across the net stood the world's top tennis player: 24-year-old Frank Sedgman...
...ranking Vic Seixas and Australia's third-ranking Mervyn Rose, the National tennis doubles championship, by defeating Australia's World-Beaters Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, 3-6, 10-8, 10-8, 6-8, 8-6; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass...
...Frank Sedgman over Fellow Australian Ken McGregor, a smash and volley battle, 6-3, 6-2, 12-14, 6-3, to keep his Newport Casino singles tennis crown; in Newport, R.I. Maureen Connolly, repeating her Wimbledon victory over Louise Brough, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, to become the Essex singles champion; in Manchester, Mass...