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...ballboy could tell that American tennis fortunes were certainly looking up. Why, any one of three Yanks had a good shot at Wimbledon last week. First there was the defending champion: chunky Chuck McKinley, 23, the acrobatic Texan who breezed to victory in 1963 without even losing a set. Then came Frank Froehling, 22, a finalist in last summer's U.S. championships at Forest Hills. And finally there was Dennis Ralston, 21, who teamed with McKinley just last December to beat Australia for the Davis...
...years storied old Wimbledon has seen a lot of bad performances, but few as shocking as last week's U.S. collapse. In the first round, Ralston lost to Tony Pickard, a 29-year-old Englishman who had virtually retired from competitive tennis; Ralston romped through the first two sets, then collapsed to lose in five. Froehling also fell in the first round-to Nicky Kalo-geropoulos, a 19-year-old, Costa Rican-born Greek who had just graduated from the juniors. Froehling's problem was double faults. By the semifinals, McKinley was the only American left...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Vic Seixas is commentator for the All England Tennis championships from Wimbledon, England; also the 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance from Le Mans, France...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 27: the London Grass Court tennis tournament, last big tune-up for Wimbledon, with a skin-of-the-teeth victory over Tomas Lejus, 22, first Russian ever to reach the finals of a major tennis tournament. Unseeded and unheralded, Lejus beat Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the semifinals, played Emerson almost even for 90 min. before losing...
...going to be clean too. Along with his 20-odd other ventures, Golfer Arnold Palmer, 34, is going into the laundry business in New York. It's called Arnold Palmer Laundries, Dry Cleaning and Maid Service Inc., is really the brainstorm of former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood, who's been in the business a long time. All Arnie has to do is be board chairman and collect the dough. Like the company slogan says: "Suits...