Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamilton Richardson, 17, a second-round upset over Wimbledon's Defending Champion Budge Patty; in London. In his fourth round, the U.S. junior champion got a case of "center court shakes," lost to Brazilian Champion Armando Vieira. The semifinalists: The U.S.'s Dick Savitt (who defeated the U.S.'s Art Larsen in the quarterfinals) v. the U.S.'s Herb Flam (who defeated Australia's top-seeded Frank Sedgman); Australia's Ken McGregor (who defeated Sweden's Lennart Bergelin) v. South Africa's Eric Sturgess (who defeated Vieira...
...Wimbledon last week, it was beginning to look like the year of the crocodile. Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, no crocodile but still a masterly all-court player at 42, could even now take the starch out of youngsters who could hardly lift a racket in the days when Von Cramm was a Wimbledon finalist three years running...
FRANK SEDGMAN, 23, seeded No. 1 at Wimbledon this year, the stocky two-time Australian champion and Davis Cup mainstay, whose siege-gun game, when he is "up," is probably the amateur world's best...
...first round of Wimbledon got under way this week, the austere ways of the nondrinking, nonsmoking, in-bed-by-11 Australians prompted one U.S. player to call them "too damned earnest." But even Patty and Larsen were buckling down with the other seven U.S. entries to the routine of roadwork and practice they will need if they hope to get past the wise old crocodiles...
...sentimental obsession about losing well and changed over to the psychology of winning well?" Baxter demanded. "Let our cricketers decide now that when the Australians come to England they shall be pounded into submission . . . Our lawn tennis players might decide now to win three sets instead of one at Wimbledon . . . Our Walker Cup golfers could will themselves into believing that even a 15-yard putt will go in if the ball is correctly directed to the hole...