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Tennis Pros Thrilled Big Crowd

The four tennis professionals, Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall, Rod Laver and Mal Anderson, delighted a large crowd at the Rutherford Park Courts, with exhibitions of power tennis. Heavy rain earlier threatened to disrupt the exhibition but through energetic work by tennis officials, the programme ran to schedule. The outstanding player on the day was undoubtedly Laver, whose service was of the rocket variety and whose smashing and placements were as fastidious as they were powerful.

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The four pros, Laver, Hoad, Anderson and Rosewall.

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The Laver serve

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Hoad concentrates

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Rosewall lost in straight sets to Laver

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Anderson reaches for a low one

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"Mr Tennis" in Nelson, the hardworking Brydon Harvey