NOTABLE EFFORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 16

NOTABLE EFFORT.

; PARIS TENNIS FINAL. "■ FRENCHMEN WIN DOUBLES. WORLD CHAMPIONS DEFEATED. 1 PARIS, June 12. ' t Results o£ duals o£ the French lawn tont ills championships:— t Men's Singles.—Bmlgo (U.S.A.) defeated t Menzel (Czechoslovakia), o—3, G—2, o—4. Women's Singles.—Madame Mathieu . (France) defeated Madame Landry '. (Prance), C—o. o—3. t In the soiul-llnills u£ the men's doubles ' c Budge and Mako (U.S.A.) defeated Kukul- . jevie ami Pallada (Yugoslavia), 2—o, (i—3, . o—2, G—2. l'etra and Destremc.au t (Prance), defeated Gabory and Szigeti - (Hungary), 10—S, G—3, G—l. The Frenchmen In the final beat Budge and Mako, who hold the Wimbledon title, - which is virtually the world championship. • The score was:—3—G, U —3, o—7, G —l. In the semi-final of the mixed doubles • Mttic and Madame Mathieu defeated Mako - and Mrs. Hopiiinn. o—i, 10— S. Women's Doubles.' — Final: Mine. - Mathieu and Miss Xorko beat Mesdames ■ Halff and Landry, o—3, o—3. THE WIGKTIHAN CUT. UNITED STATES RETAINS TROPHT. . LONDON , , June 12. America won the Wightman Cup contest • by live rubbers to two, thus retaining the trophy. Itcsults: Singles.—Mrs. Fabyan (U.S.A.) defeated Miss Lunib (England), 5—7, o—2, o—3; Mrs. Wills Moody (U.S.A.) defeated Miss . Stammers (England), o—2, 3—o, o—3; 1 Miss Marble (U.S.A.) defeated Miss '. r Scriven (England), o—3, 3—o, G—o; Miss ■ Stammers defeated Miss Marble, 3—o, 7— S, o— 3; Mrs. Wills Moody defeated Miss Scriven, li—o, 7 —u. ■ ' Doubles.—Miss Marble and Mrs. Fabyan i defeated Misses James and Lumb, o—4, , C—2; Misses Dearman and Ingram de- ; fcated __Mrs. Wills Moody nud Miss liundy.