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Maybe so. But in tennis, Australia springs eternal. Displaying the form that has won him two Wimbledon titles, four Australian championships, a U.S. and a French championship in the last four years, Emerson swept both of his singles matches in straight sets-polishing off Mukherjea in 66 min., Krishnan in 95 min. Fred Stolle's "big" serve, the biggest in the amateur game, did the rest. Aceing Krishnan twelve times and Mukherjea 20 times, Stolle won the other two singles matches to give the Davis Cup to Australia for the 21st time and the 14th in the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: The Jaws | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers hypocrisy, respectability, caste and class snobbery and native Blimpcompoops. Two insuperable zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of a finals match at Wimbledon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Bayliss and Routledge are insuperable zanies who volley words and antics with the pinging precision of a finals match at Wimbledon. Playwright Milner is an agile mind behind the madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Down with Blimpcompoops | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard-Yale combined tennis team lost to Oxford-Cambridge for the fifth straight year in the two-day match for the Prentice Cup in Wimbledon, England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Netmen Top Harvard-Elis | 8/16/1966 | See Source »

...baseball pitcher until he injured his elbow and took up tennis-mainly because it was the only one-armed game he knew of. Now he is a lefthanded teaching pro. Mama Betty, 42, is also a pro. Daughter Nancy, 23, shares No. 1 ranking among U.S. women amateurs with Wimbledon Champion Billie Jean King, and son Cliff, 19, is the No. 3-ranked amateur male player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Riven to Victory | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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