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desire to see some national championship tennis. All in this one afternoon we witnessed the following:

1) Gilbert Hunt beat Bobby Riggs, #2 U.S. player, in 5 sets. It was a stunning upset as Riggs was seeded #2 in the tournament and has won more tournaments this year by far than any other player, besides being #2 man on the Davis Cup team, trimming Quist of Australia to clinch the cup. And the odd thing was that the two sets Hunt lost, he lost 0-6. We saw this match first and I could scarcely believe my initiation to big time tennis was to witness such a remarkable upset.
 
2. We then saw Joe Hunt, U.S. Davis Cup fledgling, take over Yvon Petra, French internationalist and seeded seventh. It was a honey of a match. Petra, tall, dark, temperamental against Hunt, blond, stocky, with a chest that bulged out under his sweater, and looking like a mere kid. They both played aggressive, smashing games, and Hunt especially rushed to the net to smash and cut. Although Hunt won three sets out of four, it was a thriller, the last set going out to 9-7, I think.

3. During intermission of the Hunt-Petra match, we watched Dorothy Bundy, the plump daughter of May Sutten Bundy, polish off Mrs. Hopman, wife of the Captain of the Australian Davis Cup team. Short, rotund and brown, in immaculate white, she looked like a jolly, chubby younster [[sic]] playing in a grownups