Lewis upsets tennis

Press, 10 June 1977, Page 4

Lewis upsets tennis

i; s! NZPA-Reuter Nottingham s ; The young New Zealand - tennis player, Chris Lewis, t . of Wellington, had one of his ; best wins yesterday when he ; beat one of Australia’s top 1! players, Kim Warwick, in the i; first round, of the John Player 11 Nottingham grass-court i championships. i Lewis won the marathon 31 match 9-8, 6-8, 10-8. i Two other New Zealanders ; also made it through the first ri round. Onny Parun beat ITenny Svensson (Sweden), -j6-4. 6-4 and Russell Simpson libeat Billy Martin (U.S.). 7-5, -|4-6, 6-3. 11 However. Simpson came up I against another New Zea- ■ Hander, Brian Fairlie. in the ;■ second round and Jost nar“|rowly, 6-0, 3-6, 9-11. t Parun was also eliminated I in the second round. He was . beaten by Bob Lutz (U.S.), » 6-1, 6-3. , After collecting the Becki enham grass,-court champion- . ships last week with relative i■ ease, another Australian star, “Mark Edmondson faced the I reality of a higher grade of : I tennis at Nottingham yesterday. The hapless Australian ■(was knocked out of the first round of the £60,000 John | Player championship by the Mexican champion, Raul ! Ramirez. 6-2. 9-8. I In an all-Australian second ; round match the big-serving i Colin Dibley disposed of John | Alexander in three sets. After ■taking the first 6-3, he dropI ped the second 4-6, but picked I up his game and won the de- | cider, 6-3. The Sydnev veteran, Dick ! Crealey, won his way into the I third round when he survived 'a first-set attack by the Indian, Sashi Menon, to take it 7-5 and coast through the third at 6-3. Roger Taylor (U.K.), and the top seed, Guillermo Vilas (Argentina) also crashed out of the classic. * Vilas tumbled out in 53 minutes, beaten 6-2, 6-2 bv the forthy-fifth ranked American, Tom Gullickson. Half an ■ hour later the 35-year-o!d Taylor — who should have met Vilas in the second round — followed him back to the pavilion, beaten 9-8, 8-4 bv !Vick Amaya, also of the U.S. In another second-round match Dick Stockton (U.S , i beat Geoff Masters (Austrai lia), 6-3, 7-5.