Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They knew he could be beaten; he has lost more tournaments this year than he has won. Nevertheless, nobody can win the Australian championship and Wimbledon in the same year by accident; they knew that Dick Savitt was the man to watch this week...
Savitt, Australian and Wimbledon champion, won the first two sets against Mulloy, 6-4, 6-3, with a display of the all-court game and big serve that had carried him to past triumphs, and seemed well on his way to running out the match. Then the fire went out of his game, and he dropped the third...
...impressive than ever as he whipped the U.S.'s No. 2 player, Herb Flam, 6-2, 10-8, 5-7, 6-3, in the Southampton final. This week Tony is seeded No. 2 in the Eastern Grass Court championships at Orange, N.J. to meet top-seeded Dick Savitt, Wimbledon champion...
...unions, but these people are not musicians. [Their] loss would rob Brooklyn fans of one of the most important emotional experiences they can have." ¶ West Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, 42, still playing the sweeping all-court game that made him a prewar Wimbledon finalist three years running, carried his team into the finals of the European Davis Cup championships with victories over Yugoslavia, Denmark, Belgium and Italy. Last week, in Bastad, Sweden, Von Cramm got his comeuppance. Sweden's Davis Cuppers Lennart Bergelin and Sven Davidsson crushed West Germany, 5-0. ¶ The University of Nevada...
...never-say-die competitor himself, Ichy was stretching a point. Stocky (5 ft. 5 in., 140 Ibs.) Fumiteru Nakano, 36, was no match for Wimbledon Champion Dick Savitt, 24. Nakano did have Savitt on the run (five set points) in the first set, finally dropped it 7-5, then stuck grimly to the base line while Savitt pounded out the next two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Young (22) Herb Flam, the U.S.'s second-ranking player and a tireless retriever, beat the Japanese champion, Jiro Kumamaru, at his own game, the base-line duel. Flam...