TENNIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 September 1936, Page 11

TENNIS

PERRY WINS U.S.A. TITLE

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FOREST HILLS, September 1

F. J. Perry won the American hitional singles championship for ino third time to-day. defeating J. 1). Budge. 2/6, 6/2, 8/6. 1/6, 10/8, in an exciting match which lasted two hours 50 minutes. As the score indicates, the tide of battle swung from one player to the other in a long, gruelling match. The partisanship of the 13,000 spectators for Budge, and their cheering and groaning at improper times, greatly annoyed Perry. Although Perry, won, Budge scored 28 games to Perry's 27, and 187 points to Perry’s 180. In the fifth set. after Budge had broken through the Englishman’s service in the eighth game to lead 5/3, the prospects of an American victory brought the crowd to a high pitch of excitement. Here Perry tightened his game, and witli a remarkable display of slashing tennis won three successive games to lead 6/5. The American again rallied and forced the battle to lead 7/6 and 8/7. Although Budge several times reached match point Perry always beat back the threat and finally crashed through to a 10/8 victory.

In the women's singles final, Miss Alice Marble sprang a. surprise by defeating Miss Helen Jacobs, 4/6, 6/3, 6/2. If she had won it would have been Miss Jacobs’s fifth consecutive American championship. After a shaky first set Miss Marble, who has been out. of active tennis for two years because of illness, played a strong, steady game which the defending champion could not successfully counter.

With the handicap of a cut finger Perry encountered considerable difficulty in his match against Grant, but he finally won 6/4, 3/6. 7/5, 6/2. Budge beat Parker, 6/4, 6/3, 6/3. Miss Jacobs beat Miss Stammers. 6/4, 6/3.

Miss Marble beat Miss Pedersen, 6/1, 6/1.

LIZANA DEFEATS ROUND

LONDON, September 13

At Eastbourne in the final of the South of England championship Senorita Lizana defeated Dorothy Round 6/4, 6/2.