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King avenged her straight sets' loss to Goolagong in the final at Wimbledon last year...
...relatively little exposure on national television. This time, however, a nationwide audience tuned in to the NBC-TV network saw one of the most dramatic and well-played matches in tennis history. Searching for a comparison, one columnist reached back to Don Budge-Baron von Cramm at Wimbledon before World...
...week to his wife and two sons in Sydney. Back home for a rest after his Dallas triumph, Rosewall counted his earnings so far this year ($104,750) and pondered his future. He plans to take another crack next year at the only major title that has eluded him, Wimbledon. By then he will be 38, six years older than Jaroslav Drobny was in 1954 when he scraped by a 19-year-old prodigy to win Wimbledon. The name of the prodigy: Ken Rosewall...
...become a living testimonial to the veracity of the Army's ad. He has, for instance, developed into perhaps the nation's-if not the world's -best tennis player; and he certainly has made use of the finest playing facilities, such as center court at Wimbledon and Forest Hills...
...amateur power struggle that has long plagued tennis, six of the top professionals -Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, Cliff Drysdale and Andres Gimeno-declined to enter the tournament. Margaret Court Smith, the defending women's champion, could not come because she is pregnant. Wimbledon Champ Evonne Goolagong, the 20-year-old Australian aborigine sensation, said she had decided to take a rest. Then, in the first round, unseeded Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia eliminated another big name when he upset top-seeded John Newcombe. After that Chris Evert, the 16-year-old schoolgirl who captured the fancy...