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...Melbourne. There, if talent is a measure, Australia and the U.S. will meet for possession of the Davis Cup, held by the Aussies since 1950. Unless (unlikely) the Americans are eliminated in an earlier Cup round, the U.S. mainstays should be Wimbledon Champion Vic Seixas, 30, and Tony Trabert, 23. Opposing them will be Australia's teen-age prodigies, Ken Rosewall and Lewis Hoad, both 18. In this week's semifinals of the National Singles tournament, the two Americans confronted the two Australians...
...That left it up to Ken Rosewall to prevent the first all-American finals in the National since 1950. Armed with cunning and the best backhand among amateurs, little (5 ft. 7 in., 145 lbs.) Ken fought a war of maneuver from the baseline. But Trabert's cannonading returns took a steady toll. Rosewall, too, went down in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. For the moment, at least, Australia's grip on the U.S. singles crown was unclenched...
Next day Tony Trabert outhit Vic Seixas to take a personal grip on the title...
...Wimbledon Champion Victor Seixas lost the Newport invitation men's singles, after wrenching his knee in the third set, to Tony Trabert, 5-7, 0-6, 6-4, 8-6, 6-3. But he was the recipient of a memorable limerick from the London Observer, which had been brooding over pronunciation of his name...
...After trouncing U.S. Davis Cuppers Seixas and Trabert, Australia's Sedgman and McGregor...