Seedings for tennis

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33052, 20 October 1972, Page 7

Seedings for tennis

One hundred and fifty-nine players have entered for the annual Canterbury junior hardcourt tennis championships, sponsored by Tekau Knitwear, at Wilding Park this week-end. Seedings are:— Under 17.—Boys’ singles (25 entries): C. Brading 1, P. Hampton 2, D. Neilson 3, S. Dickson 4. Boys’ doubles: G. Wilson and Hampton 1, Neilson and Dickson 2, Brading and Te de Vries 3, P. McFadzien and R. Hayes 4. Girls’ singles (10): C. Newton 1, S. Chapman 2. Girls’ doubles: Newton and L. Wilson 1, Chapman and J. Verdellen 2. Under 15.—Boys’ singles (63): P. Gibson 1, M. Mooney 2, S. Harley 3, W. Pearce 4, M. Angus 5, A. Corkin 6, L. Walton 7, B. Hibbert 8. Boys’ doubles: Pearce and Mooney 1, Walton and Harley 2. Girls’ singles (18): V. Neave 1. P. Lewthwaite 2, L. Duffy 3, W. Parish 4. Girls’ doubles: Neave and Duffy 1. P. Ussher and Lewthwaite 2. Under 13.—-Boys’ singles (23): S. Chalmers 1, D. Chapman 2, J. Dillon 3, M. Duggan 4, C. Posa 5, B. Paterson 6, C. Rathbone 7, M. Reid 8. Boys’ doubles Chapman and Dillon 1, J. Beirwirth and Chalmers 2, B. Campbell and Reid 3. Paterson and S. Evans 4. Girls* singles (10): 1 de Meyer 1, K. Burn 2, M. Gilmour 3, J. Gold 4. Girls’ doubles: Burn and de Meyer 1, N. Tocker and J. Gold 2.

Tennis.—B. E, Fairlie, of New Zealand, beat the third-seeded C. Drysdale (South Africa), 7-6, 6-3, in the elimination rounds of the W’orld Championship Tennis tournament at Vancouver yesterday. Roger Taylor, of Britain, suffering pains in his back, was unable to meet Arthur Ashe and the American had a bye intadhe second elimination round, sF