Lawn Tennis SHOW WEEK TOURNEY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29051, 13 November 1959, Page 22

Lawn Tennis SHOW WEEK TOURNEY

Seedings Made For Today Although there are no outside players, there are reasonably good fields made up of leading local players for the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s annual show week-end tournament which begins at Wilding Park today, rlt will be continued tomorrow and on Sunday if necessary. There are 20 entries in the men’s singles and 16 in the women’s singles and corresponding fields of men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Playing in his first tournament this season, A. D. L. Hunter, ranked second to C. G. Judge in Canterbury at the end of last season, has been seeded first for the men’s singles, and C. W. Pritchard, the North Linwood club player, who was ranked third at the end of last season, is seeded second. Pritchard won the men’s singles at the recent Labour week-end tournament. The men’s winner at the Show week-end tournament last year, P. Alexander, who beat Pritchard in the final, is not now living in Christchurch but the other semi-finalists, B. J. Shirlaw and L. Martin, will be playing again. Shirlaw is seeded third. The promising junior, G. Moss, is seeded fourth and those who could threaten the seeded players include W. Thom, B. Judge, B. Aldridge, L. Walpole, and R. Minson. Women’s Field The outstanding player in the women’s singles field is the sixthranked woman in New Zealand and top in Canterbury, Miss J. Davidson, and she has been seeded first She won the Labour week-end women’s singles this season. Last year’s winner of the show tournament, Miss G. Hopkinson, is not an entry but the runner-up, Miss D. Norrie, now Mrs D. McKinnell, is «eeded second, ahead of Mrs P. Leopold and Miss L. Mardon. Others in the field include Mrs J. Lewis, playing in a tournament for the first time for some time and Miss R. Jones, the leading Southland juriior last season, who is now at the School for Dental Nurses in Christchurch.

Last season the men’s doubles was won by W. J. Smith and M. C. Healey. Smith will not play this time, but Healey is paired with Hunter and they are seeded second to Moss and Thom, who won the doubles at the Labour week-end tournament. Misses Davidson and K. Brander are top seed in the women’s doubles.

Seedings are:— Men’s singles.—A. D. L. Hunter 1, C. W. Pritchard 2, B. J. Shirlaw 3, G. Moss 4. Women’s, singles.—Miss J. Davidson 1, Mrs D. McKinnell 2, Mrs P. Leopold 3, Miss L. Mardon 4.

Men’s doubles.—W. Thom and G. Moss 1, A. D. L. Hunter and M. C. Healey 2, C. W. Pritchard and R. Minson 3, B. Judge and A. Trembath 4. Women’s doubles. Misses Davidson and K. Brander 1, Miss C. Smith ani Mrs D. McKinnell 2, Mesdames E. Campbell and W. Watmuff 3, Mesdames J. Lewis and P. Leopold 4. Mixed doubles.—Pritchard and Mrs Leopold 1, Healey and Mrs McKinnell 2, Hunter and Mrs Lewis 3, Thom and Miss Brander 4. .