Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden days of amateur tennis, the road to a pro contract was paved with silverware from Wimbledon and Forest Hills. No longer. Stripped of nearly all its top-rank players, amateur tennis is in the doldrums, and Pro Promoter Jack Kramer has been forced to develop his own stars. Best of Kramer's new proteges is Spain's Andres Gimeno, an agile 23-year-old who never won a major amateur tournament...
Married. Jesse Edward ("Budge") Patty, 37, expatriate, happy-go-lucky party boy of amateur tennis (he worked occasionally as a travel agent and movie bit player), winner of the 1950 Wimbledon title; and Maria Marcina Sfezzo, 29, ash-blonde daughter of a Brazilian engineering magnate; both for the first time; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
Last week the desperate regular cabmen swooped down on another minicab, again in Belgrave Square. But Owner Tom Sylvester is buying 75 more Fiats to add to the 25 he already has. In suburban Wimbledon, a fleet of minicabs is being expanded to 50. And canny Michael Gotla has placed an order for 800 Renault Dauphines that will be cruising the streets of London before the end of the year...
...tennis-playing days, Sidney Wood Jr. was a wiry scrapper who made up for his lack of strength with a ferocious will that led him to the 1931 Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's game-even if the fault...
Sidney B. Wood 3rd, a junior from Chestnut Hill and son of the one-time Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion, was injured when the students compact station wagon jumped over an embankment and crashed into a pavement below. He was listed as "out of danger" at Fayetteville, but will be hospitalized for 12 weeks...