NATIONAL DOUBLES
■■■"/:> TENNIS INv AMERICA 'A ■•■ \ '. AUSTRALIANS IN FINAL. (wnriD press association^-coptrisit.) :: UUBTMUAN-JHtW SEAMKB C4UB ASSOCMIKW.) j (Received 26th August, 1 p.m.) . NEW -YORK; 26* August. The Australian tennis players, Patterson , and O'Hara Wood,. are in the finals of the National Doubleß . Championship haying defeated Niles (America), and Borotra (Prance) in the semi-^ final, 6-1, 7-5, 6-0. - \ The Australians won the first, second,1, and third--games,, and Niles and Bqrotra the fourth. The. Australians took the fifth, sixth, and seventh.. They were playing .finished tennis, taking game after game with ease, won the first gama in-the second: set after deuce,, and the Australians won the second with the loss of one stroke, and the "third to love. Niles and Borp-. tra were very unsteady, and Patterson's speed was terrific. Niles and Borotra won the fourth arid fifth, each with the loss of one, point, and the Australians won the sixth in like! manner. Niles and Borotra won the seventh after three deuces, arid the Australians ' won the eighth. Niles and Borotra steadied considerably, and -were playing better tennis when the rain interrupted the ninth game. . The rain soon stopped, and the Australians" won the ninth. game- to love, the tenth with the. loss of a stroke, the eleventh with, the loss of. two,-and the twelfth to love. . •"• In the third set the Australians won' the ,-first 'and1 second games after a double deucey the third to love, the fourth with Vthe Ipss of a point, and the fifth after deuce. Niles and Borotra, who yesterday defeated Williams and Washburn, last year's Davis" Cup doubles team, in a-sensational match, appeared 'weak' to-day against Patterson'a speed. fl?hes Australians won the sixth, fame after deuce had been called, and the set and match. ' ■■ .'* ... .
• The. Johnson and W: M. Johnston match against- Fihfen and Bichards, iwhich wa* scheduled to be play-ad simultaneously -with the above match, was ipostponed until "afterwards.-
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 7
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315NATIONAL DOUBLES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 7
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