Young tennis stars
PA Auckland D. Mustard, the Auckland under-19 hardcourt tennis champion, and 14-year-old Martine Tornquist went home from the Windmill Road courts yesterday full of smiles in spite of the downpour of rain which had caused a premature ending for the day to the Auckland junior championships. Seeded sixth in the junior singles, Mustard put his game together so effectively
that his spin services and] topspun, returns were almost unplayable. First, G. Ryder, seeded I second, fell victim in the! quarter-finals then Brent! Hibbert (fourth seed), the, promising Christchurchl player, fell to Mustard in the !i semi-finals. But for Miss Tornquist, her!j birthday celebrations yester|day were delayed but made;, I the more pleasurable as she i collected the under-15p [singles title for the second 11
I year in succession, then wit! ; [Wendv Brown (North Shore) i she added the girls’ doubles Ito her titles harvest. I M. Elley, of Wellington, [ disposed of two Canterbury [players in the boys’ singles I when he beat S. Harley, 6-1, 6-1, in the quarter-finals then ; beat Graeme Liddell, 6-1, 7-5, |in the semi-finals. Harley and Mooney won [their doubles semi-final against Elley and White, 7-5. 16-3.
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