TABLE TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27089, 11 July 1953, Page 8

TABLE TENNIS

ROWE TWINS BEAT N.Z. PLAYERS MATCHES AT CIVIC THEATRE Miss Rosalind Rowe, the top-renktd woman table tennis player in England and the fourth player in the world, and her sister, Diane, who is No. 2 ih England ■■ and No. 9 in the .world, gave a fast ana exciting display in the Civic Theatre lest evening, when they represented England in a test match against New Zealandi two top women players. Misses Joyct Williamson and Margaret Hoar. The Rowe twins won by 4 matches to 0, but the New Zealand players were not markedly inferior. There was an attendance « more than 1200. _ , . In the gar l a between Miss Rosaline Rowe and Miss Williamson, Miss Rows quickly took the upper hand. She manoeuvred her opponent out of position time and again, hit harder, and. veiy quick on her feet, retrieved the ball from apparently impossible situations. Mito Williamson seemed nervous when the game started, but she soon settled down, took the second set, and fought very hard for the third. Miss Rowe won, 21-8, 14-U. 21-18. Diane Rowe, the programme sow, “shows a liking for deep defence, but in her match against Miss Hoar, which she won 21-7, 21-18. she stood right up to the table and hit hard every ball rising more than two or three inches. The doubles, especially the mixed doubles (an exhibition game, .in which Diane Rowe and N. V. Brightwell, Of Canterbury. beat Rosalind Rowe and T. R. J>. Flint, of Canterbury, 21-17. 21-23. 21-U). were fast and exciting. As the ball has to be struck alternately by each play* on each side, everyone seems to rush about at a tremendous pace. Players ano spectators thoroughly enjoyed the double* games. The scores w'ere: —Miss Rosalind Rowe beat Miss J. M. Williamson. 21-8, 14-21, 21-18: Miss Diane Rowe beat Miss M. MHoar. 21-11, 21-14: Miss Diane Rowe and Miss Rosalind Rowe beat Misses Williamson and Hoar. 21-7, 21-18; Mist Rowlind Rowe beat Miss Hoar, 21-8, 21-16; Miss Diane Rowe beat Miss Williamson, 21-13 t 21-14. _ Exhibition games resulted: —Miss Diane Rowe beat Miss Rosalind Rowt, 21“ W» 21-10; Miss Diane Rowe and N. V. Brightwell beat Miss Rosalind Rowe and T. «• D. Flint, 21-17, 21-23, 21-17.