Active week-end for tennis

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33478, 8 March 1974, Page 22

Active week-end for tennis

.4. M. MENZIES)

Even if the senior inter - club competitions have been closed prematurely because so many days were lost this season, there is still plenty of tennis activity — which is part of the reason whv further rounds could not be started. While the Canterbury NunWellington early tomorrow morning to comnlete the two remaining doubles matches in its quest to take the trophv from Auckland, a new fixture will begin in Christchurch. As one solution to the problems caused bv the season becoming more and more packed, a quadrangular tournament among four nrovinces is being held. This kills a West Coast and North Otago

are the provinces taking part in this round-robin meeting.: Previously. Canterbury has had regulai matches with each on separate days. A similar tournament, among southern provinces has been held in Dunedin for some years. Canterbury has selected a ■earn which should be more: in keeping with the strength if the visitors than one comorising its strongest plavers! G. Harris. D. Haworth. K. Ottley and K. Shand are the men. Mrs S. Keddell. Miss S Moore Misses R. Smith and E. Smith, the women. Mrs , Keddell will plav only on the ‘Saturday: she will be replaced on Sunday bv Miss A McQueen. Each team will have three matches—Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning. The consideration shown to the visiting provinces does : not extend to the Canterbury sub-associations on Sunday, i!

One’of the brightest annual;! days on the programme in': recent years, the Town-h Country fixture has beenp resurrected after a lapse of: two seasons. And for it Town I ’ ‘has brought out its big guns!’ again. I* The Nunneley Casket side 1 will leave for Wellington at! I 7.15 a.m. tomorrow and. even! 1 if Wellington produces | ! weather similar to that of a. fortnight ago. it is unlikely that somewhere cannot be! (found to plav two doubles he- ' tween early morning and mid- [ afternoon, when the team is! due to return to Christ-1 j church. This will make Mrs R.! ( Hunt. Miss J. Phillips. Mrs S.|] Haia and Miss C. Newton!] i available on Sunday. Add toj< this Mrs D. McKinnel, thej, most consistent Christchurch, woman over a long period,!, and Miss E. Dunne, and Town< has a formidable women’s!) :section. The men are led by W.![ lEdgecumbe. S. Menzies and.c

R. Webster, three Wilding Shield players, and the others are T. Mooney, B. ! Finch and S. Roberts. Country- teams excelled by (Winning five of the six ! matches on the recent Towni Country day, and some of the best-performed Country players on that day have been selected for the repre- : sentative team. It' is.— Men; R. Adams (North Canterbury). J. Griffiths (Hurunui). A. Anderson (Hurunui). M. Begg (Malvern). J. Allen (Mid-Canter-bury), W. Lewthwaite (Banks Peninsula). Women: Miss J. Dalzell (Hurunui), Mrs S. Dalzell (Hurunui), Mrs F. Ormandv (Hurunui). Miss L. Lewthwaite (Banks Peninsula), Mrs G. Beckley (MidCanterbury), Mrs G. Edmeads (Ellesmere). An interesting situation would arise if the Nunneley Casket team was required to remain in Wellington until Sunday. A number of the players who might have been called upon to replace them:

in the Town team are alreadv (committed. At the same time as' the quadrangular tournament is I held in Christchurch, another ifor juniors, also the first, will be taking place in Blenheim, iamong Nelson. Marlborough. Hutt Valley and Canterbury. Noted Canterbury players i who will be participating will ibe Misses S. Chapman and |J. Verdellen, and P. Hampiton. M, Mooney and G. Willson.

! Matches will be held for (both under 17 and under 15 j sections and in the under 15, :B. Hibbert, of Canterbury, is likely to play H. Dunphy, of Hutt Valley in a replay of the national championship final which Dunphy won. The Town-Country representative day will also have junior sections which will include players of the standard of C. Brading, S. Burns. D. Neilson and Miss A. McMaster, for Town, and S. Sinclair. D. Croy. Misses C. Dalzell, P. Lewthwaite and J. Ussher, for Country.