TENNIS TRIUMPHS

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4029, 11 September 1933, Page 5

TENNIS TRIUMPHS

With Some Sensations AT THE TOURNAMENTS ANDREWS AND STEDMAN DEFEAT THE DUTCH PLAYING FOR EMPIRE COCSET and vines TURNING PROFESSIONAL JOAN RIDLEY SCORES By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Loudon September 9 E D. Andrews and Stcxlrua.il were included in the British International Club’s team playing * gainst Holland at Eastbourne. NEW ZEALAND WINS Britain leads by eight matches to love, tile wins including Andrews’s defeat of Timer, 7—5, 6 — B, 6 —3, and Stedman’s defeat of Leembruggen. 6 —4. 7—5. The New Zealanders in partnership won the doubles. DESPITE DENIALS New York, September 9 A message from Paris states that Henri Cochet has definitely decided to turn professional. Ellsworth Vines despite his failure to reach the quarter-finals in defence of the national tennis championship, an<l his reluctance thus far to commit himself tp a professional contract. is expected to follow Cochet-s reac*. and to turn professional before the end of the year.

It i s authoritatively understood thaf despite denials, Vines has agreed to talk definite terms soon with the object of joining Tilden in a tour.

JOAN RIDLEY WTNS

SINGLES AND DOUBLES Philadelphia, September 9

Joan Ridley, of England, to-day won the middle States women s tenuis championship, defeating Alice Francis of New Jersey, 6 —2, o—--Joan Ridley and Alice Francis won the middle States women’s doubles championship defeating Anne Page of Merion, and Cecilia. Riegel, ol Philadelphia, 9—7, 6 —l. Miss Ridley reached the title round of the singles event, with a 6 —o, 6 —3 victory over Anne Page.