A Review Of The 1959 Wimbledon What Best in Kowloon?
FEWER STARS BUT IT IS
STILL THE
GREATEST
TENNIS SHOW ON EARTH
By JOHN COTTRELL
London.
Wimbledon is still the greatest tonnis show on earth and, despite opinions to the contrary, it can get along very well without Mr Jack Kramer. Financially, it has been a huge success, attracting over 275,000 spectators-the most for several years. And, in terms of entertainment, I rate this year's Championships among the best since the war.
How can this be, when nine two Americans were atung the Gut of the len best players last four women, compared with the world Bre professionals; one last year.
(Jaroslav
Astonished
Rod Laver astonished even
Earl Buchhols, who last year pulled off the unique feat of winning the junior titles of Wimbledon, the United States, France and Australia.
Like Olmedo, he is the con of i a tennis professional-from S
he hopes Emerson, Louis, Missouri-and
when both the singles tilles were undefended; and when the men's singles included only two past
the most ardent Australian ob- champions Drobny and Budge Pulty), bath servers. while Roy in the evening of their great carcerat
Because, while the standard Is slightly lower at the top. the general standard through out the 121
and 96 Jadien was higher than ever before.
men
Overseas Invasion
Such was the great overseas Invasion that only
16 British players squeezed into the men's singles the fewest in modern times, And while Britnin pro- vided 38 out of 96 players in the ladies*
singles, the averspak
challenge was so strong that not one of them reached The ensi- fails.
Less than half the first round men's singles matches were won in miraight Reis, wheresa In past years these
iended in most cas games
to be a mere formality.
In the ft Indies' singies matches, 27 (the highest number for several years) went to three dels, while many others close-fought two-setters.
were
Some crillex argue 1 tl
No. 8 seed, eclipsed Bobby W-to emulate Olmedo by galning a 1, No. 4 szed, in their quarter-tennis scholarship at the Unt final meeting.
versity of Southern California. At present, he is at high school Less encouraging
the Was form of Nente Fraser,
to graduate next 1058 and due finalist, who fell
January. to the Ollu glot, Harry Mackay, in what could be a Davis Cup Challenge Hound preview.
*Left-handed Fraser is now
Australia's No. 1. But unless he strengthens his backhand and back up his big serve with sharper voltaying, 'I can him being overlaken by fast-Improving Emerson and Laver, just he was by Iload and Rosewall and then by Cooper and Anderson,
MEC
Only one country should feel Wimbledon results-Great Bri really disheartened by
the
tain, who had her finest chance of winning a singles title since Dorothy Round won in 1937.
For the Arst time, Drills players were seeded Arst md second in the women's singles. For the first time since before the war, a British player-Bobby Wilson, No. 4-was seeded in the men's singles,
TOP
OARSMAN MAC IS UNPERTURBED
By GERALD WILLIAMS
Stuart Mackenzie, 6ft 4in 14-stone Australian, chewed lazily at a huge steak, completely unconcerned at the controversy he is causing among the straw-boatered tradi- tionalists of rowing.
Mackenzie, winner of the Diamond Sculls for the third successive year, was the personality boy of Henley Noyal- Regatta. They. loathed him, or they loved him. Either way, Mac just grinned. Chicken-sexer, single-handicap golfer, photographer, humourist and, incidentally, just about the finest sculler in the world, he should care. Yet his critics furiously denounce him. "He's no gentleman.... he pro- fanes the noble traditiona of rowing."
His Theory They accuse him of playing, to the gallery: At Henley lant year, as he reached the win-
ning post, he doffed his exp.
At Marlow Regatta he rowed in
track gult, trousers-quite un thinkable.....
Congratulations for the home-town hero from Sydney sisters, Panalope and Gillian White.. For once, controversy is far away for Stuart Mackenzlo, ・・ light-heartedly pele at Henley,
"I'll tell you this, boy," drawled the Empire Games champion, who plans, to return home to
the after
next Sydney Olympics: "Continental oars- men think it's outrageous that they have none of their travel- ling or hotel expenses paid when they come here. "After all, it's the European crews who add the flavour. They get annoyed at all the
wasted ค social money activities,
But his supporters say: He's a breath of fresh air At, tog- stuffy Henley, a gay person- ality, an entertainer. He's friendly, sporting, generous,
modest,
His latest indiscretion is lo ad- vance to me his theory, why Continental carmen sometimes reluctant to
The rate at which star pilny-Squandered Chances This year, Bueno beat Hard by from
cra roll off the Australlan line is astonishing.
of Birmingham Three
Ann Haydon Umes Australia's top pair has been was seeded No. 8 in the ladies' English snapped by Jack Kramer, singles and another Now, for the fourth time, Harry sauthpaw"-Billy Knight-was with Mexico's Yola Hopman has the material with top-seeded which to build a successful Davis Rumirez in the mixed doubles. Cup squad.
Class Of His Own But if Olmedo stays amateur
Is due to a levelling Down of until the end of next month. I the playing standard. disagree.quot me the Austraan 1
Budge Patty, 1050 champion, in the world cup this your. the lean, the In six months to
Paruvinn panther has leapt to a class of his own in the cumuteur rain.
went out in the first roun: Jon Douglas, a player ranked far below him in the United States. Drobny, 1954 champion, fell in round one to young Alam Mills, ranked unly No. 7 in Brita
Casualties
Wux
Experienced, arstie Nicola Pietrangeli, of Italy, was No. 3 sted, and he niso bowed oral in the Brst round-to 18-year-old the Eari "Butch" Buchholz, American No. 9. And yet an- other first round casually dynamic Ulf Schmidt of Swedivi, o regular Wimbledon quarter- final, beaten by another new- comer, Andres Gimene of Spain.
Anu,
of COUIAC,
the brightest new Wimbledon star 20-year-old Rod "Red" Laver, the coppery-halfed Queenslander who became the third unseeded player ever to grach the men's final and the winner of the second longest match in Wimbledon history. Buchholz, Cimeno, Laver, Emerson ... they are the new stars who emerged at this fruit- ful Wimbledon. All young men, all still to reach their peak in tennis,
WAS
Significant Feature
Most signient feature of Wimbledon was the shifting of tennis power. The Braziliası bombshell, Muria Esther Bueno, smached a 21-year American The monopoly when
won women's title. Alex Olmedo from Peru ended three years of Australian supremacy by whi ning the men's.
she
American
Until this South "nesta," only five countries had ever provided a shingles cham- plon in 72 Wimbledons-Austra- lia, Egypt, France, Britain
the United States.
and
Yet all the British players failed to justify their secding. They squin:lered their chances by rank bad play and, in some cases, by bad preparation for the Championships,
are
Com-
the world's greatest
110
top players have become pro- fessiimals in all but name.
6-4, 0-3 in 42 minutes. And Miss championships.
And now we have the curious “I ain ploying!! Dut while many fans, includ- Hard told me:
situation where the world's No. belter now than when I met ing myself, would like to see an
amateur.owes his success most Gibson at Wimbledon."
open Wimbledon, there is duel reason, financially, why the All-of all to the professionals. For from England Club should be interest- Olmedo was advised by Pancho
ed in Mr Kramer, or why the Gonzales and King Kramer be professionals should be interest-fore his Davis Cup triumph last ed in Wimbledon. So, for the December. present, it's no change.
So whats fascinating it should be if the girl Harlem meets the girl Sao Paulo at Wimbledon
year.
Not Perfect
from next
Gibson hus the steadier tem- perament and stronger ground strokes: Bueno had the better style and a brand of power tennis the like of which we have not seen among women
slace Louise Brough's heyday.
Although it promised greater things, the woinen's singles final was decided in straight sets for the ninth year la succession. But it offered an interesting yard- the new When Olmedo turns profes-stick for comparing slonal and I expect him to champion, Misi Bueno, and the
Of course, it was nul a per- do so before the end of the former champion, Miss Gibson.
In the 1957 nai, Gibson beat feet Wimbledon, for the world's Fear the United States has an obylous replacement in Hard by 6-3, 0-2 in 30 minutes, greatest players are still absent
FOUR D. JONES
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Noteworthy, too, Is the steady progress of South Africa
Russia. End Springboks could become major power Tawn tenals within the next few YESTE The Russians will take rather longer as they did not enter International tennis until two "JEKTS"DEO,"
South Africa's great improve-. ment is chiefly due to the In- crease in the number of grass courts in the Union, They have players of great potential in Gordon Forbes, Ian Vermaak, Ray Weeden und Sandra Rey- nolds, and a wily old campaign- er in Abe Segal,
Brat Ann
finished
Russian Challenge Russia sent players to Wim- bledon last year for the time, and 18-year-old Dmitrieva of Moscow runner-up in the junior girls' singles. Now 17-year-old Tomus Lejus from Estonia, playing his first season on grass, had cap- tured the junior boys' title.
With their carefully planned development pro
Russians could gramme, the provide
serious a really challenge at Wimbledon in five or six years' time and now stars may emerge faster than Jack Kramer can wrlto his cheques.
The two great tonnis power Australia and the United States
can both feel pleased
their Wimbledon results.
with Each
had two representatives in the
Jast four of the men's singles;
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