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GRAND SLAM
CHAMPION
BEATEN BY
ROSEWALL
SYDNEY, Sunday.--The world's
lop professional lennis player, Ken Rose
wall, to-day crushed former "grand
slam" amateur Rod Layer in 65 min
utes at White City courts.
Rosewall beat haver, the newest ad
dition to the professional troupe, 6-3,
6-3, 6-4.
It was Layer's second professional
defeat in 24 hours. Last night he went
down in four sets lo Lew Hoad in his
professional debut.
Lot To JLeat'n
Hoad won 6-8, 6-4, 6-3,
8-6.
Both matches showed Laver
has a lot to learn to be a
threat to either Rosewall or
Hoad in future matches.
More than 8,000 people at
tended both' matches, and
they were all with the red
headed Queenslander.
Rosewall's experience al
lowed him to outplay Laver
in all departments.
He broke leaver's serve
three times in the first set
mainly from winners or near
winners from his brilliant re
turn of serve.
Held Serve
Rosewall broke through in
the fifth game and held his
own serve to lead 4-2.
He again broke Laver's
serve to lead 5-2, lost his own.
and broke through again to
take (he set 6-3.
Rosewall's backhand worked
to perfection in the second
set and Laver lost his serve
io trail 1-3.
Both players served out
the remainder of the set for:
Rosewall to win 6-3.
Rosewall got an early break
in the third set to lead 3-1
but Laver immediately broke
back and held his own serve
to level at 3-3.
The crowd sensed Laver
might make a light of the
match from here but Rosewall
quickly broke through again
and went on to a 5-3 lead.
Failed
Rosewall held two match
points on Laver's next serve
but failed to clinch them.
He dropped the First point
of his next serve, but won the
next four to take the set and
match 1-4.
Laver received £3.000 for
his first two matches in the
professional ranks.
He earned almost £18 a
minute for his 170 minutes
on the court.for both matches.
Laver said later in the
dressing room that Hoad and
Rosewall were about 50 per
cent better players than he
had met in the amateur ranks
. on his way to winning the
"grand slam."
"I learned a lot from Lew
and Ken and my greatest am
bition is to beat them," Laver
said.
Injury
He said he had suffered a
sore left shoulder, his play
ing arm, last week.
"I think I got a chill in my
shoulder when I was practis
ing but it did not affect my
tennis last night or to-day,"
lie said.
He said the switch from
lights last night to day tennis
upset him a bit;
"But do not think I am
trying to make any excuses
for my losses-they were just
too good," he said.
Rosewall said he was
pleased with Laver's perform
ances.
He thought Laver's hard
four sets against Hoad last
night had "taken the edge off
his tennis."
"Laver has the same style
of tennis as Hoad.
"I have got used to HoadVI
game and did not find Laver
too hard to play to-day. I
"I think Laver would have
a slight edge on the other
players in the troupe," Rose
wall added.
Last night Hoad and Laver
produced brilliant tennis.
Hoad was a little erratic
after leading 4-2 in the first
set and gave Laver the chance
to win 8-6.
Laver slackened his serve
in the second set and Hoad
won Laver's serve in the 7th
game to lead 4-3.
Hoad won his next two ser
vice games to take the set
6-4.
He then raced to a 4-love
and 5-1 lead in the third set
but Laver did not give in.
Wills
He held his serve and then
broke Hoad's to trail 3-5.
1-load. however, took the
next game with ease to win
6-3.
The fourth set produced
the best tennis of the match,
wi(h games going with serve
until the fourteenth.
Laver dropped his serve and
the set 8-6.
The professional troupe
will go to Brisbane this week
for a series of matches.
They will play in Canberra
on January 16, Albury on
January 20 and Geelong on
January 22 before going to
Adelaide.
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