DAVIS CUP MATCHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 12 June 1922, Page 7

DAVIS CUP MATCHES.

AUSTRALIA'S PROSPECTS. SEMI-FINAL IN AMERIC*. LOXDOX. June IC. The Australian Davis Cup team Is practising daily at Wimbledon. G. L. Patterson interviewed un behalf of the Australian ami New Zealand Press Association, saiil thai the decision of the Australians uot to piny in any more tournaments was due to i feeling that it would be more advantageous to practise among themselves on the splen did courts at Wimbledon than to dtssinate their energies on tournament courts of vary ins qualities. The team goes to Rearhormiph on June I!), aud will have three ila.vs" play there before meeting Belgium. The Helsiaii team for the I>avis Cvii contest with \utrulia at Scarborough consists of I>e B.>r man. Washer Watson, and Van den Bewden Czeoho-Slovakia is e\perte-l ti> scratih. in which case, if the Australians bent Relcimn. they will meet Frail'-e next in ihe semi final, which, by the choice of the fulled States, will be played In America. Tln> Australians provisionally have arranged f" sail for America on July 1!'. which will give them three necks' practice there before their nest match. Patterson expressed the opinion tnnt *r. n team had not reached top form Werthein. was Improving steadily, esperi.ilr. in the ilnnWp- Anderson was playing In singles splendidly, but hitherto he had iiui shown hi« form in doubles. The crites are of opinion that the A - tralians should beat the Belrinns comfort ably and that the acl-antaL-es favour tb.'i■• nsa'lnst France. Bβ the Frenchmen a'better hard court than ctqss players. .Mr Wallis .Myers, writinc in the "Diiih Telegraph." questions Patter=on'-< n"l«rtv, In choosing a coo=t venue for the flr«t maron tlie eve of thp Wimble<lon charapionshi; The Italian Davis Cup player. Demon": is attracting much attention In Lord., : One write:- says that his service will : <• almost as sensational at WimMednn ns Patterson's tir-t appearance, bemuse ingets so miK-h snin that the hall looks like un ess as it flashes over tlie net. In the semi finals of the North London tennis rhampion'hip f'amain Kari-I.iv ifnr raerly of Tasmaniai beat F. M. B. Fisher [■formerly of New Zealandi. 7—5. 11—!'. It was a close match and was marked by fast hitting and brilliant volleying. Fisher led in the first *et at .I—2 and in the second set at 7—« aii'l o—B. Lowe beat BHjfrave. S—4. 6-i