Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Davis Cup interzone semifinals, whitewashing Britain, 5-0. Down one set and 0-5 to Britain's Billy Knight, Florida's Frank Froehling rallied brilliantly to win a crucial singles match, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, 6-4. Wimbledon Champion Chuck McKinley won two singles matches in straight sets, teamed with Dennis Ralston to take the doubles. Still to go before the U.S. gets a crack at perennial Cup holder Australia: the interzone finals next month against India. > Oklahoma: a 17-12 upset victory over No. 1-ranked Southern California...
...down in Australia, the world's reigning tennis champions are preparing an ambush for the invading Americans. Roy Emerson, no long stale, and Ken Fletcher, no longer inexperienced, are backed up by Fred Stolle, whose flame-thrower serve took him to the Wimbledon final against McKinley In addition, there is talk of reactivating Neale Fraser, whose canny court sense helped Australia hold the Davis Cup for five years Fraser is still only 29, and he held every major tennis title at some time before retiring early last year...
...difference; next year's wave would be just as devastating. Last week Australia had to be content with a one-man wave and a wavelet-second-seeded Roy Emerson and fifth-seeded Ken Fletcher. Emerson won at Forest Hills back in 1961 but lost this year at Wimbledon...
Emerson's old spot as top-seeded player at Forest Hills was taken over by Chuck McKinley, 22, the power-driving Texan who beat all comers at Wimbledon in July. McKinley's stunning win in England (he never lost a set, polished off Australia's Fred Stolle in the finals 9-7, 6-1, 6-4) evoked comforting shades of Trabert and Don Budge and clearly established him as America's-and perhaps the world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship...
...national indoor singles and doubles, the national intercollegiate singles and doubles, and his share of the Davis Cup matches against Mexico. At his worst, he has misbehaved badly enough to get a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, and blew his chances at Wimbledon in July by booting away an early match...