LAWN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 5

LAWN TENNIS

TEAM SELECTION

Alterations to the ranking rules ,were approved at last night's meeting of the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association, and the rules for the selection of the Wilding Shield and Nunneley Casket teams were adopted. Mr. J. L. MacDuff presided.

The fees chargeable against participants for the season's ranking matches will be 8s for men and 6s for* women. Each player will provide one pair of balls each day he or she participates in ranking matches. Life and association members will not be liable for ranking fees.

All players' nominations must be forwarded by the club secretary or junior advispry committee, who must supply any information available regarding the player. No player whom the ranking committee does not consider of a sufficiently high standard will be accepted for ranking. The' following rules were approved for the selection of the Wilding Shield and Nunneley Casket players:— The top twelve ranked players of the previous year are to be divided into three groups of four. After the first round matches are played the top player and/or players of the lower group play the bottom player and/or players of the higher group. At the completion of these matches the first six players are selected to train. If number seven is unbeaten or. equal in performances to number six he is to b« added to the players selected to train.

Each sub-association, if it runs its own ranking matches, is to be allowed to nominate players for inclusion in Wilding Shield and Nunneley Casket teams, and any such player shall be included with those selected in the previous two rules. A .special committee, to be called the "shield and casket committee," will be appointed for controlling the training, and will be given full power to select the teams. The committee will have the power to play any matches, either singles or doubles, they deem necessary among the players in training. _ Any nominees of any sub-association, before selection for training, may be requested by the committee to play any preliminary match or matches against, any player or players selected by the committee.