MALFROY RETURNS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 149, 21 December 1932, Page 11

MALFROY RETURNS

TENNIS AT HOME

PURPOSEFUL COACHING

IMPROVED STANDARD

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day.. Systematic "coaching has done much to improve: tho standard of tennis in England in recent years, according to Mr. C. E. Malfroy, of Wellington, who returned by the Rangitata this morning. Mr. Malfroy was at.Trinity Hall, Cambridge, for three years, and performed with considerable success in open tournaments. He gained his tennis ""Blue" at Cambridge, and .was later captain of the tennis team. Mr. Malfroy was not inclined to talk J about his performances in England, al-! though cablegrams have made it clear that he has been a lot in the limelight. He said he competed at three tournaments' at "Wimbledon, and. considered his best performance was the unsuccessfull fight he put up against Sidney Wood Jwo years ago. In the first set of that match he had been beaten by 6 games to 3, but ho had won the second' set after the games had gone to 10-12. The third set had also been sternly contested, and the American had not won until the score had gone to 10-8. In the fourth set Wood took the match by 6 games to 4. , England was trying hard to produce a team tliat would be good enough to win the Davis Cup, said Mr. Malfroy. Coaching was now being carried out along systematic lines, and there was definite evidence of improvement in the general standard. - • Many of the most promising of Britain's young players were at Cambridge, where the' standard of tennis was high and tho condition of the courts excellent', . .-.■■;.' ; Wimbledon was still tKe most popular of all tennis tournaments. "There is an atmosphere about' Wimbledon that you "simply,. can'.t get anywhere else," he declared, "and, of course, it is a wonderful fashion show." Mr.. Malfroy, who thoroughly enjoyed his three years m England, will go south to-night. Hq will be remaining in New Zealand for some time, and hopes to be a competitor at the New Zealand • championships at- Wellington in! January. ' ...■'. , . It is a coincidence that Mr. Malfroy should return to New Zealand so close on the footsteps of Mr. E. D. Andrews, another "New Zealander who did much to'advertise the name of the Dominion, in the English tennis world and abroad. . .