LAWN TENNIS
PROBABLE VISIT BY PROFESSIONALS (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Sept. 21. It is almost certain that the professional tennis players. Jack Kramer, Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura, and Dinny Pails, who are at present in Australia, wHI visit New Zealand late in November for games in some of fhe main centres. This was reported at last night’s meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association.
The visitors will possibly be in New Zealand for 10 or 12 days, but final arrangements about finance have yet to be made.
The association has approved a visit to New Zealand of a New South Wales men’s team, probably of four players, after the Australian championships at the end of January.
BROWN AND MISS BROUGH WIN U.S. MIXED DOUBLES (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Tom Brown and Miss Louise Brough won the American national mixed doubles tennis championship to-day. They beat Talbert and Mrs Margaret Osborne Dupont, 6-4, 6-4, in the final.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25606, 22 September 1948, Page 3
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