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by Ed Fitzgerald
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Amateur tennis is a stuffy sport that needs
a shot of dash and color like a ham
burger needs ketchup. Alex Olmedo, the cur
rent glamour boy and stormy petrel of the
game, is just what the doctor ordered.
Whether he's sweeping through the field to
win the Wimbledon Championship, or creat
ing a furor by refusing even to try in a first
round match in the recent National Clay
Courts Championships, and thus inviting the
wrath of the powers that be, Olmedo makes
news. He's the most colorful and controver
sial player since Big Bill Tilden.
Olmedo brought the Davis Cup back to the
United States from Australia last January
virtually singlehandedly. He whipped two
great players, Mai Anderson and Ashley '
Cooper, in the singles matches and teamed
with Ham Richardson in the doubles to beat
Anderson and Neale Fraser. Thus he won
two points by himself and shared mightily in
winning the third as the U.S. team took the
series and the Cup, 3-2.
Ordinarily that would have caused wide
spread celebrating back home in the States
since the Australians had monopolized the
Cup, symbol of international tennis suprem
acy, for five years. The trouble is that
Olmedo, who won the Cup, is a citizen of
Peru, not the United States. But because he
has lived here for five years and is a citizen
of a country which doesn't have a Davis Cup
team, Alex was technically eligible to repre
sent the U.S. However, a lot of Americans
took a dim view of the largest nation in the
competition stooping to borrow a player
from littler Peru to win the Cup.
"This would seem to be the saddest day in ;
the history of American tennis," sports col
umnist Arthur Daley wrote in the New York
Times. "A few more such rousing victories
and the prestige of this country in tennis will
sink to a new low."
Poor Alex found himself the center of a
controversy that isn't likely to die for a long
time. "I feel great. I feel happy," he said after
he won the Cup. But in almost the same
breath he had to explain patiently why he
hadn't filed for American citizenship, why he
was quite content to remain a citizen of Peru,
and to deny that he was ducking U.S. citizen
ship to avoid being drafted into the Army.
Any country would be glad to have the
dark-haired, handsome South American with
flashing white teeth, quick smile and cannon
ball serve. Other tennis players call him "The
Chief," in deference to his Inca blood. Among
the players he's as popular as any amateur
on the circuit. A bachelor, he maintains a
comfortable two-room apartment near the
campus of the University of Southern Cali
fornia, which he attends on a scholarship.
Even as a little boy growing up in Are
quipa, Peru, Alex's whole life was built
around tennis. His father Salvatore was
caretaker of the tennis club in Arequipa, and
Alex helped work on the courts, served as
a ballboy and got in as much, playing as he
could get away -with. When he was 14, he
borrowed a racquet from his father's stock
and entered a men's singles tournament. His
father probably would have given him a
good spanking for taking the racquet without
permission, but Alex had the good sense to
win the tournament.
After that it was all uphill for the Chief.
Jorge Harten, a Peruvian coffee millionaire
who loved tennis, imported a U.S. profes
sional, Stan Singer, to improve the caliber
of play in the country. Singer was impressed
by young Olmedo, and he arranged for the
boy to go to the United States.
He was able to pay part of his passage by
working as a cabin boy and, after a three
week trip, he landed with about $200 in his
pocket. His destination was Los Angeles,
where tennis enthusiasm runs strongest in
the U.S., and he prudently bought a ticket
on a cross-country bus. When he arrived, he
still had a little more than $100. "My biggest
trouble," he says now, "is that I couldn't
speak English. AH I knew how to say was
'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Coke, please.' "
Alex got a job in the pro shop at the Poin
settia Public Park Tennis Club, and be
fore long his playing earned him a scholarship
at Modesto Junior College. Soon after ama
teur tennis bigwigs spotted him, he moved to
U.S.C. on a scholarship, and his every move
was watched carefully. Coach George Toley
instructed him in tennis strokes and strategy
and filled in for Alex's absent father.
The boy developed quickly. In 1956 he won
the national intercollegiate singles champion
ship, a victory he won again in 1958. Playing
frequently as a guest of Toley at the Los
Angeles Tennis Club, he benefited hand
somely from practice matches with such ten
nis greats as Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer
and Ted Schroeder.
"That guy is going to wind up with the
fastest serve in tennis," Gonzales said admir
ingly. And all the big boys agreed that the
Chief was moving swiftly into the top flight.
They wanted him badly enough for the Davis
Cup team to pick him over a storm of oppo
sition, and they felt vindicated when he did
the job. -
, Whatever happens to him as far as future
Davis Cup competition is concerned, Alex's
tennis future seems secure. He already has
won the Australian singles championship, the
Wimbledon crown, and the U.S. indoor title.
And he'il probably win the big one which
will be held Aug. 28-30 at Forest Hills, N. Y.
After that the only thing left for him to do
will be to turn professional and make half
a million dollars. The Chief is ready.
Family Weekly, Aupust J J, 1959
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