LAWN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 5, 6 July 1922, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS

WIMBLEDON TOURNEY.

(DMlTli) PSESS ASSOCIATION.—COMRKtIT.)

. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW, ZBAIAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) , LONDON,' 4th July. ' Anderson beat O'Hara Wood, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 2-6,-6-4. • ".■■■•,

The match wag1 played under trying conditions. Heavy rain delayed the commencement for, three, hours.' Play was • only possible on a protected centre court ; v nevertheless, the largest crowd except on Saturday remained to see the Australians. • Anderson, who took the court armed with a kangaroo mascot, had the first, service. . Baking; ''drives gave him the first two games comfortably in the first set. Anderson gave Wood the lead with four double faults in the third game. Anderson took the next to love off Wood's service. The sixth was marked by 'a pretty volleying rally with Anderson, who led 5-3. Wood for the first' time took the game to deuce, Anderson capturing the set on his service. * ■ ."

In the second set, Anderson led two love. Wood won the. next two, the fourth after three deuces. Anderson's services 'gave him the next three. Wood snatched • the eighth, and Anderson took the ninth after a single deuce.

Rain interfered with play in the third set, and the light was bad. After resumption, Anderson fell away in accuracy, and Wood changed his methods.*'He defended his. back line doggedly, with the result that Anderson took only thq first and fifth games.

Wood led two love in the fourth set, Anderson only taking the third. The fifth set was not marked by 'any. longf rallies, Wood's well-timed volleying triumphing. '

The- excitement was now very tense. Anderson ran away, three love, in the sixth' set.. Wood, recovering, won the next two. Anderson took command, and led 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, but in the ninth Anderson four, times lost a match point, the game reaching deuce four times. In the tenth'gape Anderson led forty love on his service, and all seemed over, but Wood took the game to deuce twice before acknowledging defeat. The crowd. gave .the' players a great ovation. In the ladies' singles, Mdlle. Lenglen beat Miss .Ryan; 6-1; 8-6. (Received July, 6, 9 a.m.) " LONDON, Sth July. Patterson played Campbell in an increasing drizzle. The Australian's forcefulness in service gave him an easy lead in.the first few games—7-9, 6-3, 6-2, 3-1, 5-3. Patterson looked an easy winner, but a double fault, combined with Campbell's better driving, particularly to Patterson's back-hand side lino, enabled the -Englishman to draw., level. ■ The .last few games were keenly contested. Campbell went ahead 8-7 with a love game on his ] own. service, and Patterson : gave him the set'in the tamest fashion with aj double fault. Patterson in tlie second | set won the first two games to love, -and Campbell took the third after four.j deuces. Patterson won the next three in the hollowcst style, despito three double faults. Campbell, placing well, won the next two, and Patterson won the ninth to Campbell's' service. • The first five games in the. third set gave Patterson a 3-2 lead, and with a most brilliant back-hand shot to the side line Patterson took the sixth. Campbell - falling away, Patterson took the next two in the | easiest fashion. Rain stopped the play. .