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...foxy nor up to their last year's form. In the first match, the U.S.'s Veteran Ted Schroeder hardly worked up a good sweat as he whipped Swedish Champion Lennart Bergelin, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4, in just 51 minutes. In the other singles, Tony Trabert, 21, had a longer (87 minutes) tussle before subduing Sven Davidsson, 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. But Schroeder's dazzling form had Aussie experts shaking their heads in dismay: "Ted's going to give us trouble again...
During the Victorian championships last week, Shields had every reason to congratulate himself on his counterploy. His pickup doubles team of veteran (30) Ted Schroeder and young (21) Tony Trabert was looking better than ever. A fortnight ago, the U.S. pair was within a game of beating the invincible Aussie combination of Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, U.S. and Wimbledon champions. Last week at Melbourne, with the top Aussies separated in a Gamesmanlike experiment by Hopman, Schroeder and Trabert breezed to the title in straight sets...
...Tony Trabert, 21, called up for training in the Navy after winning the National Intercollegiate and Clay Court tennis championships last summer, got news that he could postpone his naval career for awhile. After he had spent four weeks in Bainbridge, Md. boot camp, sports-conscious brass approved a go-day leave for him to represent the U.S. in the Davis Cup matches in Australia in December...
...4.Tony Trabert...
...championship to Australia's Frank Sedgman in straight sets; Budge Patty, who has never regained the touch that made him 1950 Wimbledon champion; and Hamilton Richardson, 18-year-old former junior champion. Shields says he has one hope left: the chance of the Navy's transferring Trabert to Australia for temporary duty just at Davis Cup time...