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...squads split the first two doubles matches. At number one, Waldman and Cliff Adler dropped a second-set tie-breaker to lose the match, but Shaw and Lundy crushed Bob Detrich and Steve Merchant at number...
Harris Masterson recorded his first Ivy League victory in a three-set match against Mike Powers. After winning the first set, 6-2, Masterson missed a backhand passing shot on the ninth point of the second-set tie-breaker, but he took the final set convincingly...
...shuddering round of price competition among the survivors. In addition, the whole TV price level slid downhill with General Electric's introduction of portable sets priced substantially below table or console models. Though portables were hailed as opening a brand-new market for the gadget-minded and the second-set crowd, they actually grabbed off 40% of the first-set and replacement market for a time...
...Army match there were only one or two individual encounters which could be construed as being close. At number seven singles, Phil Mills was forced to a 13-11, second-set win after taking the first one 6 to 3, and the third doubles combine of Steve Gottlieb and Ian Gianetti actually dropped a set, 6 to 4, before winning their match...
Young Lew wasted little time, tried from the opening rally to rub his superior power like rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Australian visitors were hap py to underplay their pride. " I flew over 5,000 miles to see this match," laughed one fan from Down Under, "and what do I watch? The same players I see in my backyard all year long." Through...