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...During these lean years of Down Under tennis, Mal Anderson and Ashley Cooper still managed to win the Davis Cup in 1957; they might have repeated in 1958 if Peruvian Alex Olmedo had not carried the U.S. to victory. Both turned pro with varying success: Cooper has done well, but Anderson is erratic and unspectacular. They were ably replaced as Davis Cuppers by Fraser, Laver and Emerson...
...McKinley was not yet ready for Australia's canny, flame-haired Rod ("The Rocket") Laver, 22, seeded second. Laver was in danger of becoming Wimbledon's perennial bridesmaid: two years ago he lost the final to Peru's flashy Alex Olmedo, now a pro; last year Fraser beat him. This time Laver made it, and in only 55 minutes. With the score tied 3-3 in the first set, Laver broke through McKinley's service, won nine out of the next ten games for a commanding 6-3, 6-1 lead. He let up briefly...
Long & Patient. They quickly learned otherwise-and so did Gimeno's fellow pros. In his first professional match, the lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 160 Ibs.) Spaniard defeated Peru's Alex Olmedo. He then won 16 of his next 24 matches, earned the right to meet Pancho Gonzales in a 29-match, head-to-head contest for the professional championship of the world. On court, Gimeno bears a startling resemblance to the young Bill Tilden. His ground strokes are long, faultless and patient. His big serve darts and leaps. His apparent lethargy masks lightning-quick reflexes. Says Australia...
...year's guarantee of $35,000, brooding Alex Olmedo, 23, California's Peruvian-in-residence (University of Southern California), quit amateur tennis to join the pros. In a 65-match world tour, Olmedo will hazard his erratic shots against canny Old Pros Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall, a test which should quickly settle the question of whether The Chief is the flash who won the 1958 Davis Cup, or the flub who helped give it back to Australia this year...
...later overshadowed by Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper. But with all four lured away by Kramer, Fraser was left as Australia's best. Yet last week Fraser had little trouble blazing his way to the finals with his spinning serve. Across the net was Peru's Alex Olmedo, who agreeably enough had won the Davis Cup for the U.S. in 1958, ineptly enough helped kick it away this year. The routed Americans were up in the stadium...