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Americans Spark Wimbledon Second Round Action
Wimbledon opened with a surge of American wins as eight men and several women advanced in the second round. Notables included Tony Trabert Vic Seixas Budge Patty Gardnar Mulloy and Hal Burrows with wins across singles and doubles. Ellsworth Vines captured the 1954 California Open golf title at Fort Washington Fresno.
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Ley
Noe Yenk
Andy Paton
My Arbor
Mich
Denmark
Kurt Nielser
Tony Trabert
Vic Seixas
Art Larsen
Budge Patty
Gardnar Mulloy
Herbie Flam
Beverly Hills
Cal
Ken Rosewall
Australia
England
San Francisco
Stewart
Patty
Trabert
Cincinnati
O. G. Williams
South Africa
Lew Head
Ing the Pole
Ignacy Woczynski
Italy
Nicola Pietrangeli
Mervyn Rose
Neal Fraser
Larsen
San Leandro
Calif
Narenda Nath
Jaroslav Drobny
Egypt
Torben Ulrich
Mulloy
Coral Gables
Fla
B. E. Crouch
Atlanta
John
Bud) Ager
Oxford University
Hal Burrows
Charlottesville
Gil Shea
Los Angeles
Davis Copper
Gerald Oakley
Tony Vincent
New York
Norman Kitovitz
Britain
Shirley Fry
Akron
Ohio
Jacqueline Kermina
France
Louise Brough
Erika Vollmer
Germany
John Barry
New Zealand
Czeslaw Spychala
Ignacy Troczynski
Poland
Ellsworth Vines
Fort Washington
Fresno