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...three ensuing months in Australia gave him a fine postgraduate course. In the Australian championship, after beating wily Veteran John Bromwich in the quarterfinals, Savitt faced two-time Champion Sedgman in the semi-final bracket. The match went to five sets, and in the fifth, Sedgman spurted to a 4-2 lead. Savitt, always tense when he's ahead, simply relaxed and began hitting winners, won four straight games and the match. In the final, against rangy Ken McGregor, "I felt that nothing could stop me." McGregor couldn't. Dick won handily...
...four matches to one) for the Davis Cup. But in the National Singles last week, the Aussies played like men still in a happy trance over winning the international cup, and as if anything else was anticlimax. By the quarterfinals, the Australian first-liners-Frank Sedgman, Jack Bromwich and Ken McGregor -had all been upset by less-favored Americans...
...Long-legged, ungainly Dick Savitt, 23, of Orange, N.J. One of the most improved young players at Forest Hills (No. 16 last year), Savitt had beaten Australia's Bromwich to enter the semifinals...
Tennis fans were familiar with the careers of two of the four men on the Australian Davis Cup team at Forest Hills, N.Y. last week. Balding Jack Bromwich, 31, was a veteran of many a Davis Cup encounter. Handsome Frank Sedgman, 22, Australian champion, had been a member of two Australian cup squads. But who precisely were Ken McGregor and George Worthington...
...Third Point. Next day he got his wish. With Bromwich, in fine form, setting up plays for Teammate Sedgman's smashes, the Aussies won the clinching doubles match from the U.S. pick-up pair of Schroeder and 36-year-old Gardnar Mulloy. The score...