AMERICAN REVIVAL

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31409, 30 June 1967, Page 13

AMERICAN REVIVAL

Richey won a grim, tense battle of serves and nerves against Roche, by 3-6, 3-6, 19-17, 14-12, 6-3, sustaining his heavy-weight attack to the last point. The thrilling clash on the No. 4 court was only four games short of the Wimbledon record of 93 games, set in 1953 when J. Drobny beat B. Patty in a 4hr 20min encounter.

The match developed into a mighty service-governed duel in the third set. Richey was serving first, so that Roche was always under pressure to stay abreast of his chunky opponent He finally cracked in the thirty-sixth game. In the decider, a brilliant cross-court enabled Richey to surge through the Australian’s delivery in the eighth game, and he confidently served out the match. The big serve and volley attack of Riessen enabled him to gain a deserved victory, by l-«, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, over Leschly, a 26-year-old I chemist

Late in the day C. Pasarell, who beat the defending champion, M. Santana, on the first day, outlasted the Australianborn R. A. Hewitt, who now heads the South African rankings. Pasarell won, 6-3, 6-8. 6-2, 6-4. The successes of Richey, Riessen and Pasarell have come at a time when American men’s tennis is at its lowest level after a recent humiliating Davis Cup defeat by Ecuador. And for the first time in Wimbledon history, not one American man was seeded.