ROTORUA TOURNAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 10

ROTORUA TOURNAMENT.

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ROTORUA, Friday. Good progress was made in the Kotorua tennis tournament to-day, and therema ing matches will be played on J*ew itai - Day. Results : — Ladies' Championship Singles.-— Semifinals: Miss Evans beat Miss Dement, 6—l. ft 4 • Miss Pay ton beat Miss Wilson, t>— i* Final: Miss Payton (Auckland) beat Miss Evans (Auckland), Seml . Ladies' Championship Doubles, bemj finals: Misses Dement and Legge beat Misses Sturt and Asser, o—2 6-—1 , Mrs. Herrick and Miss Moginie beat Mrs. Tinks and Miss Wilson, 6—2, 6—3. F i n p a _\.;„t|nd Dement and Legge beat Mrs. HerricK ana Miss Moginie, 6—2, 6—o. . iy lrs Ladies' Handicap Doubles —Final Mrs. Tonks and Miss Wilson beat Misses Suttie and Newman, 6^ —5, 6—o. „ • . Ladies' Handicap _ Singles.—Semi-finals Miss Evans beat Miss Legge, B—o, Miss Matheson beat Mrs. Herrick.B—l. Combined Handicap Doubles: Semifinals : Millar and Miss P en l ent beat Her rick and Mrs. Herrick, 9—j : Dannefaerd and Miss Evans beat Tukere and Miss Ka Ks 9 Championship Doubles.- Final: Anderson and Thompson beat Christmas and Elliott, 6—2, 6—5, 6—3. ,i Combined Championship Doubles.—Second round (continued) : Hay and Miss Moginie beat Dannefaerd and Miss Evans, b—J, 4 6 6—3: Tukere and Mrs. Karepe beat Castl'eberg and Miss Western, 6—l, 6—3. Semi-final: Miller and Miss Dement beat Martin and Miss Suttie, 6—l. 6- _. Men's Championship Singles.—Semi-finals . Thomson beat Tukere, 6 —3, 6 —*> ; Millar beat Richardson, 6 —4. 6—l. Men's Handicap Doubles. —Semi-finals : Tukere and Royal beat Buisson and Dannefaerd, 9—3 ; Hulton and Mclsaacs beat Simmonds and Hay, S —7. RESULTS OF FINAL MATCHES. HIGH STANDARD OF PLAY. ROTORUA, Saturday. The Rotorua tennis tournament was continued to-day in cloudy weather. The courts were fast, and play reached a high standard in the concluding games, which I were played before a larg gallery. ReI suits :— , „ Men's Championship Singles.—Final: H. O. Thomson beat Millar, 6—5, 6—4, 6 —l. Ladies' Handicap Singles.—Final: Miss Evans beat Miss Matheson. 6—o, 6—l. Combined Championship Doubles. —Semifinal : Tukere and Miss Karepe beat Elliott and Miss Wilson, 4—6, 6—3, 6—4. Final: Tukere and Miss TCarepe beat Millar and Miss Demont, 6—3, 6—3. Combined Handicap Doubles. —Final : Millar and Miss Dement heat Dannefaerd and Miss Evans, 6—5, 6—2. Men's Handicap Doubles.—Final : Hulton and Mclsaacs beat Tukere and Royal, 5—6, 6—l, 6—o. Men's Handicap Singles.—Final: Tukere beat Millar, 6—l, 6—l.