TENNIS

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1928, Page 3

TENNIS

PARIS, May 19. In a tennis match, British women v. Preach. Miss Nuthall beat Madam VaussarJ 6/3, 6/3; Miss Joan Fry beat Madam Bordes 6/1, 6/1; Miss Eileen Bennett beat Madam Lafouric 6/4, 6/3; ’Mrs Watson beat Mnille. Deve 6/1, 6/1. Misses Fry and Colyer beat Madam Bordes and Mdlle. Bourgeois 6/0, 6/3; Madam Lafourie and Mdlle. Dove beat Miss Nuthall and Mrs Lyeett 6/3, 6/4. In the Davis Cup, second round, at JTeresingfors, Gregory, continuing, defeated Grahn (Finland) 6/0, 1/6, 6/1.1 Higgs beat Grotenfclk 6/2, 6/1, 2/0, 6/0. ITALY BEATS ROUMANIA. LONDON, May IS. In the Davis Cup second round, at Rome, Italy eliminated Roumania. De Morpurgo and Gaslini beat Luppy and Domer 6/2. 6/4, 4/6. 3/6, 6/4. Italy now meets India in the third round. At Helsingfors, Gregory (England) wa s leading Grahn (Finland) 6/0, 1/6, 4/1, when rain stopped play. At Berlin, Germany eliminated Spain, Prenn beating Flaquer 4/6, 6/3. 6/2, 6/4. Germany meets the winner of .the Anglo-Finland match at Amsterdam. Kehrling (Hungary) beat Diemerkool (Holland) 7/5, 4/6, 2/6, 6/1. Diemerkool then retired. Timmer and Koopman beat Kehrling and Peteri 1/6, 6/4, 6/2, 7/5. At Rome, Italy eliminated Kouniania, Stefani beating Luppu 3/6, 6/4, 6/4, 5/7, M/7. De Morpurgo scratched against Dormer. At Stockholf, Czeeho-Slovakia defeated Sweden, Eaozeluh and Maeenauel beating Malmstrom and Winnergsen 6/0, 6/2, 6/4. Menzel (Chechoslovakia) beat Garell 6/2, 6/0, 5/7. 8/5. Malmstrom beat Macenaucr 10/8, 1/6, 7/3, 8/6.

In the Davis Cup games at Berlin, Flaquer and Morales (Spain) beat Bergmann and Kelinschroth 7/5, 6/3, 2/6, 6/8, 6/1. At Amsterdam Timmer (Holland) beat Taekals (Hungary) 6/2, 6/0, 6/1. The new French tennis stadium at Autevil has centre courts accommodating ten thousand, where the hard court championships and Davis Cup challenge round will be played. It has been opened.