TENNIS.
C -VNTERBURY CHAMPIONSHIPS CONCLUDED. (ijy TEtiF.ORAPH—PBF.SS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 22. The Canterbury tennis championship tourney was concluded to-day in hot weather. The results are:— MEN’S SINGLES. G. Ollivier beat D. F. Glandhille 5 r [ } 6—o, 7—5. Semi-finals. —N. Peach (New South Wales) heat C. Brewster (New South Wales) B—s, 6—2; G. Ollivier beat E. A. Seay 6—4, 6—2. Final.—G. Ollivier (Canterbury) beat N. Poaeli (New South Wales) 6—4, <i —o, 6—3. It was a close game in the first set, although Ollivier might have won by a bigger margin. In the second set he was unplayable, and, in the third he was always comfortable, returning everything that Peach sent down and displaying far greater courtcraft. Throughout the match he always had a little bit in reserve to finish off the rally in his favour. MEN’S DOUBLES. Final. —A. L. North (New South Wales) and J. McCausland (New South Wales) beat C. Brewster (New South Wales) and J. Fitzgerald (New South Wales) 6—l, I—6, 6 —l, 6—3. LADIES’ DOUBLES. Fourth Bound. —Miss M. Wake and Miss E. Partridge beat Misses N. and L. Saunders 6—5, 9 —7. Final.—Misses Speirs and Ferrier beat Misses Wake and Partridge B—6,8 —6, 6 MIXED DOUBLES. Semi-finals. —Patterson and Miss M. Speirs beat N. Peach and Miss M. Macfarlane 6 —l, 4—6, 7—5; A. L. North and Mrs M. Beale beat N. Peach and Miss M. Wake 6—3, B—6. Final. —Patterson and Miss Speirs beat North and Mrs Beale G—o, 6—l, 6—o.
AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. 3Y CABLE—PRESS aSSOCI ATION— OOPYRIGB f MELBOURNE, Jan. 23: The commencement of the Australian tennis championships tournament was made the occasion of the opening of the Victorian Tennis' Association’s splendid new ground at Kooyong in fine weather. There was a big crowd in the early stages of the championship. The matches produced some splendid struggles between the leading players. DAVTS CUP CHALLENGE. NEW YORK, Jan. 22. Hungary has challenged for the Davis Cup. This is the sixth European national challenge for the cup.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 January 1927, Page 3
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