Ellesmere retains Browning Shield

Press, 10 March 1984, Page 25

Ellesmere retains Browning Shield

Ellesmere retained the Browning Shield by overwhelming North Canterbury, 23-9, in the final of the Canterbury sub-association representative series at Leeston. Ellesmere’s win was even more convincing than its 1913 success, last season, when North Canterbury was the other finalist also for the first time since 1950. North Canterbury’s hopes were adversely affected by being without its No. 1 man, Hugh Robinson, because of other tennis commitments.

Playing one of his best games, Kelvin Beattie, at No. 2, was the only North Canterbury man to win a singles match. Ellesmere dominated each of the sections taking the women’s singles, 5-3, the men’s and women’s doubles sections, 31, each, and the combined doubles, £-3. Individual scores, North Canterbury names first:—

Men’s singles: John Robinson lost to Shane Adair, 8-9; Kelvin Beattie beat Eddy van Opzeeland, 9-8; John Allin lost to lan Watson, 5-9; Graeme Demmocks lost to Peter Terrace, 6-9; Barry Jury lost to Graeme ’ Main, 6-9; Michael Lines lost to Chris Munden, 69; Dougal Murray lost to Derek Abbott, 6-9; Graeme McKenzie lost to Brent Winks, 6-9.

Women’s singles: Sue Graham lost to Judy Langford, 2-9; Rosemary Gardiner beat Penny Kraak, 9-5; Denise Peter lost to Beryl Wilson, 19; Sandra Blackadder lost to Bernadette Carr, 2-9; Jan Morriss beat Teresa Seaman, 9-7; Jan McGregor beat Sandra Winslade, 9-1; Jean Lundy lost to Joanne Terrace, 8-9; Penny Rollinson lost to Pam Morris, 3-9.

Men’s doubles: Robinson and Allin lost to Adair and Watson, 3-6, 5-6; Beattie and McKenzie lost to Main and Terrace, 4-6, 4-6; Jury and Lines lost to van upzeetana and Abbott, 3-6 4-6; Demmock and Murray beat Munden and Winks, 5-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Women’s doubles: Graham and Gardiner lost to Langford

and Wilson, 3-6, 5-6; Peter and Rollinson lost to Kraak and Carr, 1-6, 4-6; Blackadder and Lundy beat Morris and Seaman, 6-5, 4-6, 6-5; McGregor and Morriss lost to Winslade and Terrace, 5-6, 1-6. Combined doubles: Robinson and Peter lost to Adair • and Langford, 0-6, 6-5, 1-6; Allin and Gardiner lost to Main and Wilson, 2-6, 5-6; Jury and Graham lost to van Opzeeland and Kraak, 4-6,1-6; Beattie and McGregor beat Terrace and Carr, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3; Demmocks and Blackadder lost to Watson and Seaman, 36, 2-6; McKenzie and Lundy lost to Abb6tt and Terrace, 46, 6-3, 5-6; Lines and Morris beat Munden and Morris, by default; Murray and Rollinson beat Winks and Winslade, 2-6, 6-0, 6-2.