USA Team | Opponent | #1 Singles | #2 Singles | Doubles | Comments |
Alice Marble | Finland | Tina Karwasky | Mary Ginnard | Martha Downing/Toni Novack | USA won 3/0; Day off on Thursday, play winner of Australia/GBR Friday |
Kitty Godfree | Sweden | Brenda Carter | Carol Clay | Betty Wachob/Leslie Pixley | USA won 3/0; Clay dropped first set; USA plays Netherland in QF of playoff tomorrow |
Althea Gibson | Norway | Donna Fales | Cathie Anderson | Lurline Fujii/Charleen Hillebrand | USA won 3/0 Fales finished just before 3 hour rain delay; play Spain on Friday |
Queens | Australia | Dorothy Matthiessen | Dori deVries | Kathy Langer/Lyn Tietz | USA won 3/0; play next on Friday; 3 team round robin with RSA/GER for Cup |
Doris Hart | Australia | Lucille Kyvallos | Jane Lutz | Margaret Canby/Joyce Jones | USA plays Netherland in first match of 3 team playoff for gold (Thursday) |
Von Cramm | Finland | Paul Wulf | Tony Dawson | Larry Turville/Wesley Jackson | play winner of Canada/Sweden tomorrow after that match finishes (#2 singles on court) |
Britannia | Ireland | Brian Cheney | Armistead Neely | Jimmy Parker/Richard Johnson | USA ;lays GBR tomorrow in the quarters |
Crawford | Turkey | Allan Carter | Rudy Hernando | Fred Drilling/Tom Brunkow | USA lost 1 game; play Netherlands tomorrow I think, in the quarters |
Bitsy Grant | Switzerland | Larry Sears | Herm Ahlers | Lester Sack/Jim Nelson | USA won 3/0, lost 3 games; play GBR on Friday in semis |
Gardnar Mulloy | Norway | George McCabe | Saul Snyder | John Powless/Joe Russell | USA won 3/0; play France on Friday |
The weather turned poor today; lots of rain, thunder and lightning in Umag.I got stuck at the club within sight of my hotel for 30 minutes after watching the end of a match (delayed by rain at 5-6, deuce in the third set of the deciding doubles…Finland ended up beating Austria), by lightning). It was windy too. The USA men’s 60s team has to wait for Canada and Sweden to finish their 2nd singles and possibly doubles before they can play their QF match tomorrow. Weather is iffy tomorrow early, then better later.
Go USA! Bring home the Gold World Cup Kathy Langer and team!
Kenni and Milt