Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: the Wimbledon men's singles championship, with ease, trouncing fellow Aussie Fred Stolle, 26, for the second year in a row, with a straightforward serve-and-volley game that won in three quick sets, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The slender Aussie had only a bit more trouble in the semifinals, polishing off the U.S.'s top-ranked Dennis Ralston, 22, in four sets...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Highlights of two British sporting events: the Ascot Gold Cup horse race and Wimbledon...
...hard-surface tennis courts running full tilt, and two deluxe cottages, appropriately called Wimbledon and Forest Hills. The Tennis Ranch is operated as a private club, and among its members are such notables as Procter & Gamble President Howard Morgens and Alaska Steamship Co. President David Edward Skinner. Five-day clinics for couples who want to perfect their mixed doubles game are held eight months a year, and the couples are expected to play tennis five hours a day. "We compensate by giving them breakfast in bed, a sauna bath and a massage," Proprietor John Gardiner says...
...elders. The cocky, carrot-topped Aussie lefthander, then 24, was far from awed by the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. After all, he was the first player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Experts marveled at his vicious ground strokes and slashing serve, his unique ability to cock his wrist at the last instant to put topspin or underspin on the ball...
McKinley's game had been sour all year: he was beaten in the semifinals at Wimbledon, in the quarters at the U.S. Nationals, was even talking about quitting to sell stocks. Ralston had been off his chow too-with blisters and a bad case of jitters. But U.S. Captain Vic Seixas figured that the porous clay courts at Cleveland's new, $75,000 tennis stadium would help the Americans; Aussies are used to grass, on which the ball tends to bounce flatter and faster. The theory looked good when McKinley beat Stolle...