Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-01
Louise Brough,'
SeiixasLeadU.S.
Tennis Advance

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WIMBLEDON, England, June
80 (P.-Louise Brough, defend
ing women's champion, and Vic
Seixas. former mems titlist, led
the way today as a strong United
States contingent filled seven
Of the l6 quarter-fi final berths
in singles play in the Wimble
don tennis tournament
Miss Brough, top-seeded and
four-time winner here in her
long career. was one of four
Americans advancing to the
women's quarter-fl finals. With
her were second seeded Beverly
Baker Fleitz. Long Beach, Calf;
Althea Gibson. New York.
Shirley Fry, st. Petersburg, Fla.
and four of Britain's best Il
Angela Mortimer, Angela Bux-
ton. Shirley Bloomer and Pat
Ward.
Seixas. Wimbledon champ IN
1853 but seeded only eighth this
year. made it into the mems
quarter finals with Ham Rich
ardson. Westfeld. N. j., Swe-
den's Ulf Schmidt, and Aus
tralians Ken Rosewall, Nal An
derson and Neale Fraser.
Lew Hoad of Australia, top
seeded, and Allan Morris, Of At
lanta, Ga. the current giant
killer Of the mems division, en-,
tered the quarter-f finals yes
terday.
Art Larsen Loses
In mems quarter final play.
Seixas will meet Morris. Rich
ardson will face Fraser, Hoad
will take on Anderson and
Schmidt will play RoseWall
The only American to lose was
Art Larsen of San Leandro. Calf ;.
former national champion who
fell before RoSewall. Is, IS
6-3.
All other United States players
won in straight sets, most with
hardly a deep breath.
Miss Brough lost three Of the
first five games. then found her
game to overpower Fay Muller
of Australia, 6-3, 6-l Mrs.
Fleitz. seeded second and favored
by many to lift Miss Broughs
title. eliminated Mrs. Suzsy Kor-
mocZi of Hungary. 60. 8-6
Miss Brough. who drew criti-
cism from spectators and press
earlier in the week for her re-
fusal to let up against out
gunned rivals, was sluggish at
the start of her match with Miss
Muller. but pulled out of it after
falling behind 2-3. She reeled off
nine straight games while cllnch-
ing the first set and running up
a SO lead in the second.
Althea Beats Pat Hird
Miss Gibson, No. and winner
in lS of 81 tournaments on her
current tour. breezed past Pat
Hird. one of Britain's llghtly-re-
garded players. 60, Ga. Miss
Fry. seeded fifth, eliminated Mrs
Jennifer Hoad. wife of the Aussle
star. %, 90.
Miss Gibson again was er-
ratio. She won the first six
games, lost the next four then
won the last six. She was out of
position and wide open for
smashes many times but Miss
Hird and unable to take advan-
tage of the lanky New Workers.
errors.
: The British quartet also had
an easy time of it. Misses Ward.
Mortimer. Buxton and Bloomer
: all moving on without loss of
set against overmatched OPP
Donents.
The pig surprise of the days
: play was the way in which
SeiXas performed in routing
: Gordon Forbes. promising %
year-old South African. 60,
81 8-6.
Segal Re-injuries Back
Richardson needed only one
set to win over South Africa S
Abe Segal After dropping the
first set Is, Segal reinjured
, his back and was forced to de-
fault.
Schmidt, the United States
indoor champion last year. de-
feated Luis Ayala of Chile. IS.
ST. Ga, GO while Fraser,
the fast improving Aussie. eli
, minated countryman Bob Howe,
, 60 Ga, Is.
Anderson and Nicole Pietran-
geli of Italy, were involved in
the longest match Of the day,
Anderson finally winning it
|, 81, SO. 6-3, As. 60.
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