WIMBLEDON TENNIS

Evening Star, Issue 22689, 1 July 1937, Page 13

WIMBLEDON TENNIS

SEMI-FINALS OF MEN’S SINGLES BUDGE DEFEATS PASKER AUSTIN BEATEN BY VON CRAMM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 30. (Received July 1, at 11 a.m.) MEN’S SINGLES. SEMI-FINALS. Yon Cramm defeated Austin, 8-6, 6 r 3, 12-14, 6-1. Budge defeated Parker, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. MEN’S DOUBLES. FOURTH ROUND. Hecht and Menzel defeated von Metaoa and Jamain, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Tinkler and Miss Lumb defeated Bernard and Mme Henrotin, 6-2, 6-2. Pronn and Miss Dearman defeated Lee and Miss Dicken, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Mako and Mile Jedrzejowska defeated Schroeder and Miss Saunders, 4-6, 8-6, 6-1. Tuckey and Miss Scriven defeated Collins and Lady Rowallan, 6-1, 6-3. Petra and Mme Mathieu defeated Ritchie and Miss Scott, 6-0, 6-3. Yaraagishi and Miss Nuthall defeated Wilde and Miss Whitmarsh, 6-3, 6-4. FIFTH ROUND. Petra and Mme Mathieu defeated Borotra and Mrs Boegner, 6-1, 8-6. Budge and Miss Marble defeated Tuckey and Mies Scriven, 6-2, 6-2. WOMEN’S DOUBLES. THIRD ROUND. Mme Andrus and Mme Henrotin defeated Miss Jacobs and Mrs Sperling 7-5, 6-8, 6-2. Miss Dearman and Miss Ingram defeated Miss Lyle and Miss Nuthall, 6-0, 4-6, 7-5. Miss Round and Miss Heeley defeated Mrs Boegner and Countess de la Valdene, 5-7, 6-1, 7-5. FEATURES OF THE PLAY. Tho weather to-day was cold and thrr '.oning, but the stands were crovued. Parker routed Budge in tho first set with fierce drives and occasional service aces. Budge piled on pressure in the second set, and handled Parker’s service much better. Budge, in dropping the first set, lost his first set of the tournament. He had occasional bouts of wild smashing in the third set, but managed to win paints at critical periods. Despite Parker’s tenacity and astounding recoveries, Budge won five games in a row in the fourth set for the match. In tho other semi-final game tho first set went with the services until 6-6, then von Cramm won a love game on his own service and captured Austin’s for-the set. The players thus far wore extraordinarily even, but von Cramm established definite superiority in the second set, which

ho won chiefly by magnificent services and fine passing shots. A desperate battle was witnessed in the third set, Austin pulling up from 3-5 to lead 6-5. The Englishman had four set points at 11-10, but von Cramm evened to 11-11. Nearly all the games went to deuce. Both held the service until Austin broke the German’s after deuce in the twenty-sixth game. The German’s tirelessness on tho base line and profitable excursions to the net, and bis general resourcefulness which the Englishman so effectively resisted in the third set, rapidly triumphed in the final set. Von Cramm told the Associated Press he would definitely visit Australia at the end of December or January.