Word: sven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rounding into top form despite the strenuous socializing of the European summer tennis circuit, Cincinnati's Tony Trabert breezed past Sweden's Sven Davidson, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, and won the French singles championship for the second year...
...SVEN BACKLUND...
...Davis Cup tennis players, in the interzone final with Sweden at Brisbane, Australia, handily won all five matches (four singles, one doubles), earned the right to play Australia for the cup next week. In a remarkable singles match with Sven Davidson, young Ham Richardson beat the able Swede...
...final of the Victorian Tournament, but that did not take the spotlight off floundering Lew Hoad (who had just turned 20 last fortnight). Hoad had barely stumbled through his opening match with Britain's young (20) Roger Becker. Then, in a match with Sweden's Sven Davidson, he eked out a precarious five-set victory. During the second and third sets, which he kicked away, Hoad heard a rare sound-an Australian crowd booing an Australian player. Said he later: "I just didn't give a hoot. I felt I didn't want to play. That...
...Sven Gard of Sweden in his presentation speech, said that the discoveries marked a "new epoch" for science around the world...