BEFORE WIMBLEDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 7

BEFORE WIMBLEDON.

Star Players In French Hard Court Tourney. A BRITISH SURPRISE. (Australian n ress Assn.—L'uited Service.) (Received 1 p.m.) PARIS, May 27. In the hard courts tenuis championships in the mixed doubles J. B. Hawkes and Miss Boyd defeated Borotra and Madame Bordes. 6—4, 5 7, S >;■ Cochet and Miss Bennett beat Thurnevsen and Madame La Faurie, G—4, fi 1; Hunter and Miss Wills beat Turnbull and Mrs. Lycett, 6—l, <'►—4. In the women's doubles, in the semifinal Mademoiselle Deve and Madame La Faurie defeated Miss Bettv Nuthall and Mrs. Lycett, (J—3, 6—3;*Mn>. Watson and Miss Bennett defeated Misses Fry and Collier, 5—7, o—l, 0 3. In the final of the men's doubles Borotra and Brugnon defeated Bovd and Robson, G—2, 6—3, 2—6, 3 6, G—^-3. There was a surprise in the finals of the men's doubles at Surbiton when Spence and Lycett defeated the Davis Cup players. Crole-Rees and Eam<»s. .after a hard-fought match, 7—5, 7—5. 7 —o. 5 In the semi-finals of the men's doubles Coehet and Dnbuzelet beat Cre-orv and Kin-s!ey o—4. o—l. 3-7 ami '7—5. Borotra ami Bruirm.ii Vat Laudrv and rinii-nevi-scii S —(i. :?—i;—2 and* 0 In the mixed s. mi-fins 1 ('whet and I Miss Bennett beat Lacoste and Mdlle. i Bourgeois 6—4, 6 —J. !