U.S.A.: STAN SMITH AND JAN KODES WIN THROUGH TO UNITED STATES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI-FINALS

Record ID: 338350

  • Title: U.S.A.: STAN SMITH AND JAN KODES WIN THROUGH TO UNITED STATES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI-FINALS
  • Date: 7th September 1973
  • Summary: 1. SV Pull Back to GV Parun saves to Smith loses point, game and 1st set. 0.6 2. SV Scoreboard "6-3" Smith 0.11 3. SV Pull Back to GV Smith serves wins point, game, set & match zoom into Smith Parun shake hands 0.32 4. SV Crowd applaud 0.35 5. SV Young serves to Court who wins point in first set 0.45 6. MV Court serves, Goolagong hits ball out of court, loses game and first set. 1.00 7. SV Pull Back to GV Wade serves, long rally Young hits net, Court and Wade win game, set and match, players shake hands 1.23 8. SV Crowd applaud 1.26 9. SV Pull Back to GV Kodes serves, wins point, game and third set after short rally 1.41 10. SV Scoreboard Kodes winning two sets to one 1.44 11. SV Kodes waiting to receive serve 1.47 12. SV Pilic serves, hits ball out loses point, game set and match. Zoom into players shaking hands. 2.02 Initials AE/23.54 AE/12.19 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 1973 13:00
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  • Location: FOREST HILL, NEW YORK: U.S.A.
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAB34K2GM3DP64P3RIS37W2BJYH
  • Story Text: Stan Smith of the United States and the Wimbledon champion Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia on Thursday (September 6) won through to join Australians Ken Rosewall and John Newcombs in the semi-finals of the United States Tennis Championships at Forest Hills.

    Smith who is fighting for his second U.S. title easily beat 26-year-old New Zealand Onny Parun in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.

    Jan Kodes, Smith's successor as Wimbledon champion had a much harder struggle against Yugoslav Nikki Pilic, the man whose suspension led to Smith and the other top professionals boycotting this year's Wimbledon championships.

    The match was not decided until the fifth set when kodes finally broke Pilic's service.

    Kodes won 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5, and will now meet Stan Smith in the semi-final.

    In the women's doubles semi-final second seeds Margaret Court of Australia and Britain's Virginia Wade defeated Australians Evonne Goolagong and Janet Young, the fourth seeded pair, 6-0, 6-4.

    They will play the top seeds Billie Jean king and Rosemary Casals who entered the final by defeating the unseeded team of Chrls Evert of the United States and Olga Morozfa of the Soviet Union 6-2, 6- 1.
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