LAWN TENNIS Junior Tournament Has 170 Players

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29906, 21 August 1962, Page 18

LAWN TENNIS Junior Tournament Has 170 Players

More than 170 young tennis players thronged Wilding Park yesterday when the annual August holiday tournament fur juniors began Previously conducted by a sports goods firm, the touma- . ment is being run this yeai by the Canterbury Junior Lawn Tennis Association and by las evening most sections were well ahead. The use of courts at the Avonside and Linwood clubs helped progress. The tournament will continue tomorrow and will end on either Wednesday or Thursday. In the main singles sections under 19 this year instead of under 18 as in previous seasons some of the seeded players were eliminated in yesterday’s early rounds. J. Cullington, one of the provinces most prominent juniors in recent years, seeded first, and R. McCutcheon, a Slazenger shield player, seeded third, have reached the semifinals of the under 19 boys’ singles. Last year’s winner of the under 18 singles, W. Edgecumbe, if Lincoln. seeded second, has vet to play his quarter-final, but the fourth seed. A. Gowans, was beaten by L. E. Vallance. a Linwood High Schoo) pupil. Vallance won 9-7 in the second round

Two of the top four seeded players went out of the under 19 girls’ singles. L. King, seeded second, one of four Canterbury players to be coached in Auckland next week, was beaten b> S Mackay, of Lincoln. 9-6, and B Brebner of Christchurch i Girls’ High School, seeded fourth, lost to B. Fineran (Cashmere High School). 4-9. C. Andrew, the top seed, will play D. Hopping, seeded third, and Fineran will play Mackay in today’s semi-final The under 15 boys had no upsets, and I Behmes. last year’s winner seeded top. is through to the semi-finals. In . the girls’ under 15 singles, the • biggest section, with 42 entries. ! the third seeded P. Old ridge I was beaten. 9-2, by E Cuminack | who would have been seeded if ' she had not been a late entry , However, Cum mack was herself (beaten later bv H Caldwell The 'top seed. P McLean, has i reached the semi-finals. the seconded seeded J. Nolan ito J Bud. and the fourth--1 seeded J Clothier lost to B I McKee. BOYS’ EVENTS Under 19 Singles Second Round —J. Cullinffton [beat T Skerton. 9-1; J P Martin beat G. Jarr.es. 9-5; R Rogers beat K. McKee. 9-2: W Fdgecumbe beat J F. Martin 9-0; R McCutcheon beat B D Clarke. 9-3; L. E Vallance beat A Gowans. 9-7; R. James beat D Thom. 9-3; P A Clarke beat Davis. 9-3.

Quarter-finals, Cullington beat J P. Martin. 9-6: McCutcheon beat Rogers. 9-1 Under 19 Doubles Second Round W Edgecumbe and L. Vallance beat J Goodman and R Scott. 9-5

Under 15 Singles Second Round.—l. Behmes beat G. Wheal. 9-3; L. beat D Tullett 9-5; J Griffiths beat R B>wden 9-0; B Fern beat C. Fawdrav. 9-0; D Meredith beat A. Kelsev. 9-7; W Thomas beat P. Worthington. °-7; A. Cronin beat G. Beazlev. 9-0,

Quarter-finals.—Behrnes beat Thom. 9-3 Under 15 Doubles Quarter-finals, J. Griffiths and P. Worthington beat D. Tullett and A. Kelsey. 9-4; A Cronin and P. McGoldrick beat

J Watkins and R. Bowden, 9-5; D. Meredith and G. Ellis beat G Wheal and E. McGuinniety. 9-1. Under 13 Singles Second Round. P Co rich beat P. Graham. 6-1; S Murdoch beat B Cox. 6-1; R. Griffiths beat V Aitments 6-2; J Corbett beat R. Fisher, 6-1; M Louisson beai N. Manger. 6-1: L Martin beat R. Harte. 6-2; L. Wheal beat B. Wood. 6-1: D, Blickuell beat D. Sehroederi 6-0. Quarter-finals. Corich beau Murdoch. 6-5; Griffiths beat Corbett, 6-0; Martin beat Louisson. 6-5; Blackwell beat Wheal 6-5 Under 13 Doubles Second Round. Cox and Blank beat P Corich and R Griffiths. 6-3; R Harte a»d M Louisson beat D. Schroeder and C. Morgan. 6-5; Aitments and Marshal] beat R Fisher and L Martin 6-3

GIRLS’ EVENTS Under 19 Singles Second Round.—C. Andrew beat A Bishop, 9-1; S. Mac Neill beat G Thompson, 9-3; B. Fineran beat B Brebner. 9-4; S Mackay beat P Dickey. 9-1; L. King beat D. Dulieu, 9-3; J. Coombs beat J Eder, 9-8; D Hopping beat P Gleeson. 9-3. Quarter-final.s— Andrew beat Mac Neill. 9-4: Mackay beat King. 9-6; Hopping' beat Coombs. 9-5 Under 19 Doubles

Second Round.—C. Andrew and G Thompson beat H Hunt and C Bull 9-0 Under 15 Singles

Third Round —D. McKee beat J. Clothier, 9-1; S. Wolfe beat N Clark. 9-0; E Cumm-ack beat J Skinner. 9-1: P McLean beat B Scott, 9-4: H Caldwell beat P Hopkin son. 9-6; H. Blank beat R. Annand 9-1: L. Renaut beat R. Harrison. 9-8; J Bird beat J. Nolan. 9-5 Quarter-finals.—McLean beat Wolfe. 9-5. Caldwell beat Cummack, 9-8; McKee beat Blank. 9-2; Renaut beat Bird. 9-3.

Under 13 Singles Second Round —J Hardie beat R. Parry. 6-3; J Nolan beat M Up’ichard. 6-2: S McGillivray beat L Oldridge. 6-2; D Harrison beat G. Parry. 5-1; E Clarke beat G Hampton 6-0: M Cocks beat J Archibald. 6-3. H Zimmerman beat G Herron. 5-1. Quarter-finals. —Hardie beat C Arthur 6-0: McGillivray beat No an. 6-0; Harrison beat Clarke 6-3: Cocks beat Zimmerman. 6-2

—McGillivray beat Hardie 9-4; Harrison beat Cocks 9-3 Under 13 Double*

Seconu Round E Clarke and M. Cocks heal W Woods and A Parlane. 6-1: M Polson and J. Hardie beat E Gendal] and J Archibald. 9-6: G Herron and S. McGillivray beat B Brueber and S Legge, 6-2: L. Oldridge and M Uprichard beat H Zimmerman and J Nolan. 9-2.

Semi-finals—Clarke and Cocks beat Polson and Hardie. 9-6.