LAWN TENNIS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 15

LAWN TENNIS.

IVAN SEAY RETURNS. THE AUSTRALIAN TOUR. Sunburned and cheery, Ivan Sear, r.«lerbury'« representative Jawn ten- . laTer in the New Zealand team, ihich has i ,lst completed a tour ot South Wales, returned home yestprdav morning. Although lamenting the bad weather . ;' h prevented much valuable practt he' spoke in high terms of the '♦Stment accorded the team while in For the first eleven or twelve 7 , rain fell consistently, and the !t'« as a result, were cut about *oft when the weather cleared. But be is thoroughly satisfied with the Fm. and is of the opinion that what £ learned while in Australia will he •f L, to him later on. The ntmosl»ric conditions were vastly different Un those in this Dominion, and then the players were unaccustomed . the comparatively-speaking clearof the light and the oppressive lift g e ajH declared that his best ilfnnij while on the tour was played w he took a set from £«lma. the New South ? JeS champion; for Kalms .I. undoubtedly the best of the test ffiers there. His volleying and his were essentially his attacking and he followed swiftly to ]Ket and volleyed the return T if there was anv return. Kalm's service indeed difficult to deal with. "I am satisfied that there is a lot rtat the Australians can teach us •bout tennis," Seav said, "and I learnId , lot about, volleying there." In the doubles matches he had observed the Australians came much closer to the net than players in this country, ind their service and volleying shots *Still! not think the authorities in New South Wales could show \e# Zealand any points in running a tournament. There they had the Um_jres > Association, but the first two or three rounds of the State championships *ere played off without umpires. An d on the whole, he thought the arrangements for the tournament were not afl good as those in the New Zealand Championships. he had played some grass games on the nioht courts, but the play on them could not be • taken seriously. "The best players do not practise on them,'' he stated. Entertainments hid been provided for them wherever they had gone, and the social side, therefore, had. been verv pleasant. Talking of women players, he said Miu May Speirs, the Dominion champion, would be a fine match for Miss Alchurst or Miss Cox, the New South fjes champions.