LAWN TENNIS FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 16

LAWN TENNIS FOR WOMEN

LESSONS FROM WIMBLEDON. Everybody agrees that watching gocjd -players is an essential item in one's own lawn tennis education. A girl who thinks and who knows some principles of athletics will benefit much by an»)ys* ing tJft moyements of champions. She should not merely fall down and jvorship; some' study and criticism of the gods will add to her pleasure arid prevent the hysteria sq often seen and heard %% Wimbledon. Many of the champions have had'habits of stroke, and the. fact of their being champions does not excul* pate their crimes against the principles of strokq, A male cousin is often to b$ seen expounding some champion's stroke (a bad one), expounding it all wrong, and exalting it to heaven. One of these is tho wrist-flick h^ the fore-hand drive.- .You will find that the ohampions who use it are magnificent for many of their drives, but, ingloriously in yie for .too many; Yon gei a safer and a stronger stroke- by keeping the wrist in tho. natural position, moving it neither forward nor backward during the s\virf*{ back, hit, and foljow-through-. If yon keep it stiff, you find you must get the hitting powei somewhere else— namely, from the elbow, shoulder, and forward swing of the whole body from the right foot. ■. ■ The great thing to get hold pf for your own improvement is (as you will see'from the champions) Unit-tennis strokes attain perfection only when the. bo3y*niovement is the maste;, served by footwork, 'fhe less' important servants' ar? the hand, wrist',-anil arm. .It is very good pvactice, to try to hit ball' without -moving the- arm.at aMt it forces yiyi.tp use your tost and body. ' '.

A Pittsburgh girl, J-s*si» Ann eleven yenw of 113 c, in'e»thoa every Frid*y night ot a mimou hall,