LAWN TENNIS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 11

LAWN TENNIS

AMERICAN NATIONAL SINGLES COCHET DEFEATS HUNTER CROWD APPLAUDS WINNER’S ERRORS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right.) (Bee. September 18, 5.5 p.m.) New York, September 17. At Forest Hills, Henri Coehet (France) won the United States National Singles championship, defeating Francis T. Hunter. 4—(l, o—4, 3—o, 7—5. o—3. In the first set, while they both lost service once, to take the score to. i 4. Coehet could not hold his own service in tile vital ninth game. In tlie end the American had no difficulty in running out sot. Coehet played only one game consistently to the American's backhand, and thereafter Hunter's vicious forehand put the Frenchman on the defensive. They were so evenly matched in the second set that at the end of tlie sixth game, with the score 3—3. there was only one point of difference between them, ami thus they continued until Hunter dropped his service in tlie tenih. to lose the set. the difference being only three points. In the third set Coehet. who had lost his service twice to Hunter's once, nevertheless had the opportunity of ’ even when tlie American stood o—4o on Ins own service in tlie eighth game, hut the Frenchman dropped the next eicht points successively to bring tlie Ameriean to set point. Hunter quickly dcciileil the issu_. Tlie French num Wks inaccurate beyond expectation, and tlie crowd roared wiiti glee at bis rerun.. Coehet in the fourth set acet)tnulated a j_n lead witli lightning rapidity, lin> shots g off beautifully, but the American bee' n to creep up •>>> "f» until Mie score Stood 5-5. Hunter was imitating the Frenchman in mixing his pt.ee, a lolis and sof( returns and stop volleys with ■1 crackling forehand. Ihe erovvd was slmffi tig its bead off. Hunter dropped his service in ">'■ eleventh game in a disap. pointing manner, and this was advantage enou-li for tlie Frenchman to run out set. Ilun'er in the fifth set took tlie first two .rallies on a break in rochet's service, but the Frenchman won tlie next four and out at a 5- 3 load on a love game I,', his service. The Frenchman had no dillll,j, in winning tile deciding game.