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1960 Local Tournament

Men's singles = 1/8 f: Paul Caramé d Edouard Samuel 64 62; M Rebeiz d R Anid 46 63 75; ¼ f : Youssef Zeydane d Francis Samuel 61 63; Caramé d Rachid Fawaz 63 36 61; K Fawaz d Sami Sawaya 75 79 62; Sami Zeydane d M Rebeiz 64 62; ½ f : Y Zeydane d P Caramé 62 108 16 60; K Fawaz d S Zeydane 62 61 63;

Final : Karim Fawaz d Youssef Zeydane 16 62 86 63.

Men's doubles: ½ f : Fawaz-E Samuel d F Samuel-A Bezdjian 64 64 75; Rebeiz-Sawaya d Y Zeydane-Caramé 46 46 63 64 64 ; Final : K Fawaz-Ed Samuel d Rebeiz-Sawaya 62 62 63

Juniors 18: ½ f : Edouard Samuel d Rabih Baz 86 64; Final : Edouard Samuel d Sami Zeydane 26 86 75;

Juniors 13 : Aref Kouayess d Sabah Baz 75 62; Fouad Abourousse d Samir Nassif 63 64; Final : Aref Kouayess d Fouad Abourousse 62 63.

1960 International ended on August

1/8 f : J Pearce d M Rebeiz 60 62 ; F Stolle d S Zeydane 61 63; I.Vermaak d Edouard Samuel 60 62; A Gaertner d Youssef Zeydane 62 62; R Krishnan d Sami Sawaya 60 61; J Ulrich d Rachid Fawaz 79 62 61; L Ayala d Paul Caramé 62 62;

Men's singles - ¼ f: Luis Ayala (Chile) d Karim Fawaz (Leb) 62 61; Fred Stolle (Australia) d Jorgen Ulrich (Denm) 63 75; Ian Vermaak (S Afr) d John Pearce (A) 63 46 62; Ramanathan Krishnan (India) d Albert Gaertner (S Afr) 60 75;

½ f: Ayala d Stolle 64 61 64; Krishnan d Vermaak 63 61 63;

Final: Luis Ayala d Ramanathan Krishnan (probable score 64 64 16 86)

Men's doubles, ¼ f: Vermaak-Gaertner d R Fawaz-E Samuel (Eddé) 60 60; ½ f: Krishnan-Ayala d J Ulrich-K Fawaz 75 61 63; Vermaak-Gaertner d Stolle-Pearce 63 62 75; Final: Krishnan-Ayala d Vermaak-Gaertner 64 86 64

Ladies Singles ¼ f: Miss Armstrong d Caroline Yates-Bell (GB) ½ f: Sandra Reynolds (S Afr) d Mrs Ayala-Tort 64 62; Renée Schuurmann (S Afr) d Sheila Armstrong (GB) 64 64

Final: S Reynolds d R Schuurmann 36 64 97.

Mixed doubles ½ = R Schuurman-A Gaertner d C Yates-Bell-J Pearce 63 63; S Reynolds-I Vermaak d Armstrong-F Stolle 26 86 75- F: S Reynolds-Vermaak d R Schuurmann-Gaertner

• Over 1500 spectators packed the western grandstand of Brummana for the Sunday finals, and the prizes ceremony was presided by interior minister Kamal Jumblatt. Even the Saturday Ladies final attracted 1 000 spectators for a thrilling match between the good-looking 2 South African Ladies. Jumblatt might have wanted to emulate Pierre Gemayel's presence at the finals, the year before !!!


• Sandra Reynolds was the finalist at Wimbledon a month before gracing the Brummana courts, losing to world no 1 Maria Bueno 86 60. Reynolds was ranked 3 in the world at the end of 1960 (no 5 in 1961, no 6 or 8 in 1962 , and Renée Schuurman was no 10 in 1960, no 8 or 9 in 1961-62-63.


• Stolle was reported to have been handicapped by a digestion-related fever during his match vs Ayala.


• Luis Ayala had had a fantastic season on European clay that spring, losing both the Italian final in Rome and the French final in Paris/Roland-Garros in 5 sets to US no 1 Barry McKay and the Italian Nicola Pietrangeli. At Wimbledon, Krishnan and Ayala played a superb match in the 1/4s, with Krishnan winning 75 108 62. Because of the quality and subtlety of these two competitors'tennis, All the sports editorialists put this encounter far above the ¼ match between world no 2 and 3, Laver and Emerson.


• Ayala and Krishnan were world ranked no 7 and 8 respectively at the end of the year. Krishnan was a Wimbledon ½ finalist for both years.


• End of year, Sandra Reynolds was world ranked no 3 and Renée Schuurman no 10.


• The week preceding Brummana, Ian Vermaak had won the singles in Istanbul over Stolle, Ayala in 4 sets in the semis and J Ulrich 64 61 119 in the final. Sandra Reynolds won the Ladies singles over her friend Renee Schuurman 86 63, and Krishnan and Ayala spent 3 hours in the doubles final before beating the improbable team of Stolle and Pearce 60 36 46 61 108. Ian Vermaak, runner-up in the Men's singles in 1959 at Roland-Garros, was ranked world no 10 at the beginning of 1960.


• Jorgen Ulrich, as bearded as his older brother Torben, but much more conventional, had won the French Indoors in Paris in 1960, over B Wilson, J Drobny and Billy Knight.