LAW TENNIS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 241, 8 July 1938, Page 5

LAW TENNIS

Wellington Ranking Rules SELECTION COMMITTEE A meeting of the management committee of the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association was held last night, the chairman, Mr. J. L. Mac Duff, presiding. The committee adopted rules for ranking matches for the 1938-39 season. They are the fame as for last year, except that there has been a slight increase in the fees, and players must be nominated by club secretaries or the junior advisory committee. The ranking committee is to have the right of refusing the entry of any player if it considers his or her game not of a sufficiently high standard. When secretaries are forwarding a players entry, information concerning his or her performances is also to be supplied. The committee also approved a scheme for selecting the Wilding Shield and Nunnerley Casket teams. The top 12 plavers of last, year are to be placed in groups of four. After the first round matches are played, the top player or players of the lower groups are to play the bottom player or ■ players of the group next above. At the completion of these matches the first six players are to be selected to train. Should No. i player, or Nos. 7 and 8, be equal in pei> formances to No. 6, or should No. 7 player be undefeated, he (or she) is to be added to the top six players for trainEach sub-association' is to. be allowed to nominate players for inclusion iu Wilding Shield and Nunnerley Casket teams A special committee, to be called the “Shield and Casket Committee.” is to be set up to control the training, and will be given full power to select the teams. The committee will have power to have played any matches it deems necessary among the players in training. It is also given discretionary power to ask any nominee of a sub-association to play a match against'any player it considers desirable before he takes Ins place among those selected for training.