TENNIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1935, Page 5

TENNIS

z N.S.W. CHAMPIONSHIPS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, November 15. A high gusty wind to-day made play very difficult in the New South Wales tennis championships. Resiilts: — Men’s singles, semi-finals: Quist beat Crawford 4/6, 6/4, 6/4, 11/9; Hopman beat Tonkin 4/6, 6/4, 6/4, 10/8. Women’s Singles, semi-finals: Miss Hartigan beat Miss Nicholls 6/3, 6/3; Miss Coyne beat Mrs. Hopman 4/6, 6/4, 6/4. Mixed Doubles, second round: Lindo and Mrs. Betts beat Donohoe and Miss Nicholls 6/3, 2/1 (retired). Men’s Doubles, semi-finals: Crawford and McGrath beat Ferguson and Chrystal 6/3, 8/6, 9/7; Quist and Thompson beat Hopman and Kay 11/9, 7/5, 7/5. Miss Nicholls started well against Miss Hartigan, the Australian champion and led 3/1 before Miss Hartigan got her famous forehand working smoothly. Miss Hartigan won five games in a row to win the set. Miss Nicholls was unable to gauge the pace of the Australian’s shots in the second set, outing returns. Miss Nicholls was not playing confidently enough to test Miss Hartigan’s backhand. The Australian’s forehand drives repeatedly found the sideline with Miss Nicholls out of position. Donohoe developed a bad cramp in the mixed doubles and forfeited the match.

Quist proved steadier than Crawford in the singles championship. Quist took the net and forced Qrawford into errors.