Tennis DAVIS CUP MATCH

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29899, 13 August 1962, Page 6

Tennis DAVIS CUP MATCH

Inexperience Of N.Z. Team (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 12. New Zealand would have won the first round Davis Cup match against Denmark if 3. E Robson or L A. Gerrard had been in the New Zealand side, according to I. S. Crookenden Crookenden, Misses M. A. Smith and P. Belton returned tonight from their overseas tour with the New Zealand tennis team. “It was only inexperience that beat us." Crookenden said. “We were a young team With Robson or Gerrard tn the side it would have made a difference.” Laver Beaten In Germany ( N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) KITZBUEHEL (Austria), August 10. The Wimbledon champion. R Laver, met an unexpected defeat in a quarter-final of the Alpine Lands Cup open tennis tournament at Kltzbuehel today I. Budlng, of West Germany, beat Laver, 6-1. 4-6. 7-5. It was the first loss in eight weeks for Laver, who has captured eight national singles titles this year. Laver's Wimbledon runner-up. M Mulligan, also lost today, to a German. C Kuhnke. Laver said later that Budlng had played fine tennis "I think perhaps I have been playing too much tennis recently, and probably this affected me today.” he said. Worthington Wins British Title (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. August 11. The Australian. G. Worthington. today won the men's singles title at the British professional lawn tennis championships at Eastbourne, Sussex. Worthington, the All England Club coach, outclassed B. Moss for the seventh successive year to win. 6-0, 6-1. 6-2. The match, played in gale-force winds, lasted barely 40 minutes.