Ever since Australia's Frank Sedgman and Ken MacGregor turned pro, tennis fans have wondered which of the lesser lights would succeed to the world's amateur tennis titles. Last week, in the Australian championships at Melbourne, four 18-year-old youngsters supplied the answer, winning four of the five titles at stake, and sharing in a fifth.
Ken Rosewall, the prodigy who at 17 upset U.S. Davis Cup Captain Vic Seixas in the U.S. Nationals, did it again last week. Next day Rosewall became the youngest player ever to win the men's singles title by blasting a relative veteran, 22-year-old Davis Cupper Mervyn Rose,...
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