TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 25994, 8 January 1947, Page 6

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN'S QUARTER-FINALS McKenzie accounts for edwards (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 8. Tlie main interest in the New Zealand tennis championships to-day centred in the quarter-finals of the men’3 singles. In the first match R?- S. McKenzie (Hutt Valley) beat N. V. Edwards (Hutt Valley), 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Edwards brought ioff several good drop shots, but he was sometimes forced out of position by the cool tactician against him, and when that happened McKenzie placed his return where he wanted it. A hint of Edwards’s pre-war form was given in one or two of his'volleying sorties and neat cross-court placements, but McKenzie bad something in hand to take the first two sets 6-3. 6-4. Still playing, with the same effortless ease, (McKenzie reeled off .the third set for a very comfortable win,-6-3.

■ O. Bold took the first set 6-3 against N.. Bedford, but Bedford led 4-2 in the second. He took seven points in a row, but lost the following game after five deuces had been called. He won the set at 7-5. Bedford’s net attack worried Bold in the third set. Bold trailed 1-3, and on two occasions when he took the net lie was beaten by slow passing shots. Bedford continued to dominate the play close in, and won the set 6-1.