Sport: Fighting Lion

In the golden days of amateur tennis, the road to a pro contract was paved with silverware from Wimbledon and Forest Hills. No longer. Stripped of nearly all its top-rank players, amateur tennis is in the doldrums, and Pro Promoter Jack Kramer has been forced to develop his own stars. Best of Kramer's new proteges is Spain's Andres Gimeno, an agile 23-year-old who never won a major amateur tournament.

At home, where he ran up six Spanish doubles and two Spanish singles championships, handsome Andres Gimeno (pronounced Hee-may-no) is a national hero. In athletic Australia, where he beat Neale Fraser and Roy...

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