OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 190, 14 August 1933, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

WHAT PERRY THINKS.

Britain Won Davis Cup Off

Americans' Service.

MISS ROUND'S EAST TITLE,

(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright

NEW YORK, August 13,

The British tennis stars, Fred Perry, H. G. N. Lee, Edward Avory and Frank Wilde, arrived here on Friday to fulfil a series of engagements, including those at the rational championship meeting at Forest Hills in September, and meetings in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Referring to the defeat of the United States team in the Davis Cup play Perry said: "The Americans may have under-estimated our team. Certainly they seemed under-trained when we played them, rather than over-trained. Then, too, you people over here have never seen the real Austin. If you had and knew him as we do for the sound player he is, you would not have been so surprised when he beat Vines.

"If you ask me to name a single factor that most helped-to defeat the Americans I would say it was their service. It was less effective at Roland Garros than on the grass anyway, and when Austin and I returned,it successfully we immediately had the advantage." In the final of the women's singles in the eastern tennis championships yesterday Miss Dorothy Round (Britain) defeated Miss Mary Heeley (Britain), 6—2, 6—4.

In tho all-American final of the men's doubles Vines and Gledhill defeated Lott and Mangin, 6—2,. 6—2, 6—4.