Pancho Gonzalez

Pancho Gonzalez may have been the best tennis player of all time, but his fits of rage offended almost everyone in the game, cost him six marriages and alienated him from all but the last of his eight children

The tournament at Bournemouth, England that brought together pros and amateurs became more than an experiment when young Mark Cox upset Pancho Gonzalez and Roy Emerson in successive matches

Playing on a rubber surface that slowed the ball but not the action, the pros last week reminded everyone what ground strokes are like

Even the memory of his earlier days as the world's most exciting tennis player seemed remote as aging Pancho Gonzalez made a pathetic bid to come back

The first U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills were disastrous for the professionals, but for the winner, America's Arthur Ashe, they proved that he has finally become one of the world's best players