Tennis drubbing

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34047, 10 January 1976, Page 14

Tennis drubbing

<V.Z. Press ,4ssortoHo.<» HOBART. { Australia has won an « effortless 2-0 lead after , the first-day singles { matches in ihe eastern £ zone semi-final Davis)’ Cup tie at Hobart today. 1 I John Newcombe completed t the second win for Australia when he defeated the Indone- i [sian. Gonda Wijoyo. in t straight sets, 6-1, 6-2, 7-5. in I 73 minutes. F Earlier, Tons Roche drubbed Indonesia’s top ' player, Atet Wyono. in one of ® I the easiest Davis Cup wins j ever recorded. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, in 7 40 minutes. f The left-handed Roche conceded only eight service points for the match, four of which were his own double 1 faults. The outclassed Atet scrounged only 22 points for the entire match, and hit only! one clear winner against Roche. He had only one game point, in the fourth of the second set. Newcombe, after a good start, fell into many errors v ‘ , t

against the former Indonesian champion. Gondo. and several limes had to struggle to hold serve in the last set. The gallery applauded loudly when Gondo took ihe first game of the third set and the umpire announced “Indonesia lead one game in love’’ — it was the first time this call had been made lor the da\. The Indonesian team manager (Mr .h»no SoedjGiio) >atd that he was thankful Australia showed his Davis Cup players no mercy. “Losing the two singles the way we did was quite honourable to us.” said Mr Coedjono. “It was better than Australia giving us a few games just to console us.”