YOUNG TENNIS PLAYERS CHOSEN FOR COACHING

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30209, 14 August 1963, Page 11

YOUNG TENNIS PLAYERS CHOSEN FOR COACHING

'AGAIN four young play- •** ers have been nominated by the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association to attend the Auckland association’s coaching school from August 25 to 31, the first week of the school holidays. They will join with others from throughout the Dominion to play, think and talk tennis.

The school has been conducted annually for several years but has only recently become known as the national coaching school, with a subsidy from the New Zealand association Those who have gone from Canterbury have usually shvwn great benefits from the exacting pro-g-nmme of physical training. and theoretical nd practical instruct’on in stroke production and court strategy. In the past some Canterbury players have been more than once.

but none of this year’s four has been before. They are:— R. McCutcheon, of Christchurch Boys’ High School, who was recently ranked third on the provincial senior men’s list. The ninth - ranked national junior. McCutcheon had a fine season, which began when he was a finalist in the men’s singles at the Labour week-end tournament and finished when he won the South Island men’s singles at the age of 17 As top of the United club’s senior team he won six of eight singles and represented Canterbury in senior inter - provincial matches. He has been in the Slazenger Shield junior team for two seasons and is Canterbury under 19 champion. McCutcheon has fine ground strokes but his service needs attention. J. Martin, of St. Bede's College, is a tall, slim lad with well-developed strokes which need more power He wa- ranked top under 17 boy in the province and eighth on the under 19 list Martin was one of three Canterbury juniors who competed tn the New South Wales age and school championships in 1962. Last season he became South Island under 17 champion and also won the three under 17 titles at the Wes’ Coast junior championships He plaved in two senior club matches for North Linwood, winning both his singles Miss J. Bell, of the No-th Linwood club, was ranked eighth on the girls’ A ladder last season when the

was under 16. She won the Canterbury secondary schools’ junior singles, was runner-up in the South Island under 17 singles and was a Town representative against Country. ight in build. Miss Bell is a steady and clever player but she also needs more pace. Miss J. Coombs, of Cashmere High School, is more strongly built and hits her shots hard, but is inclined to be erratic. Tenth on the girls’ A ladder, she was a finalist in the secondary schools’ junior singles and in the West Coast under 17 singles. She was also a Town junior representative. In the second week of the holidays, players who are available will be able to take part in a sponsored junior tournament held ea"h near in Auckland