Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wimbledon's courts were strewn with upsets in the 69th All-England tennis championships. Earliest high-seeded casualties: U.S. Davis Cup Player Vic Seixas, blasted out in the second round by U.S. Hard Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders...
Married. Lewis Hoad, 20, Australian Davis Cup star famed for his "big" game; and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's leading women tennis players; at Wimbledon, England...
...varsity tennis team capped its Joint European tour with Yale by defeating a combined Cambridge-Oxford squad, 6 to 4, at Wimbledon to regain the Prentice Cup. The three Crimson players making the trip were Ham Gravem, Steve Gottlieb and Brooks Harris. Gravem and Gottlieb were among the four American players gaining singles wins in the cup matches...
...longest of the grass-court season, outlasted Pasadena's Straight Clark, 29, for the Newport invitation title, 6-3, 9-7, 12-14, 6-8, 10-8. Shot through with upsets, the tournament saw such top-seeded players as the U.S.'s Vic Seixas, Australia's Wimbledon Finalist Kenneth Rosewall and his Davis Cup teammate, Lewis Hoad, all beaten badly in early rounds...
Playing in a gusty wind that disturbed her usually impeccable game, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly outlasted California's Louise Brough in the women's finals, 6-2, 7-5, and won the Wimbledon singles title for the third straight year...