Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing about Tennists Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas-they always provide suspense. Nobody can ever be sure whether they will play great tennis or goof. Last week, in regaining the Davis Cup for the U.S. from Australia, they did both...
...Sydney's White City Stadium Vic Seixas squirmed nervously in the taxi. Nevertheless, he was relieved that he was not due to play first (he had been beaten in the opening singles match last year). But eager-beaver Tony was bursting for action. The luck of the draw had spared Seixas, pitted Trabert against Australia's brilliant Lew Hoad in the singles opener. Trabert and Hoad divided the first two sets. In the next, Hoad had Tony sweating at set-point, but lost his chance on a cross-court shot that went out. Hardhitting Tony raised his game...
...Said Vic: "I felt I had to win. I have never lost nine times in a row to anybody." Next day Seixas and Trabert, who are better as a doubles team than either is as a singles player, won the doubles, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8, and clinched the cup. Then, with the remaining two singles matches a mere formality, Seixas and Trabert promptly went to pieces again. They played oafish tennis, and Australia saved face. Rex Hartwig beat Seixas in four sets and Rosewall beat Trabert in three...
...Americans-provided they get by their interzone final with Sweden, which they probably will-have hopes of snatching the cup from Australia in this year's challenge round, to be played after Christmas. All three of the U.S. Davis Cuppers-Vic Seixas. Tony Trabert and Ham Richardson-pulled themselves together and played at top form for a while; later they faltered, but not so badly as their opponents. On a soggy, rain-soaked court last week in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium, Australia's Ken Rosewall beat Seixas in the final of the Victorian Tournament, but that...
...Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 25, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Marie Pier-angeli), 22, elfin-faced, Italian-born cinemactress; in St. Timothy's Roman Catholic Church, in Hollywood...