BRILLIANT TENNIS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 3

BRILLIANT TENNIS

DAVIS CUP MATCHES.

TILDEN’S GREAT WIN.

A FIVE-SET BATTLE,

(Australian I’ress Association—United Service.) Received 2.45 p.m. to-day. PARIS, July 27. An lehithiusi'aatic perspiriug crowd-, of nine thousand wa t ched Tildeu heat Lacois t’e> after. ia dye-fact battle testing two .hours' .twenty minutes under a fierce sun., The conditions were, net imp.rovied , /by a high wind and' match dust, nee eBBi baiting the watering of itih© clourt after the third set. The 'better man. won, but until Ithe laist slot) Wheu Tildon went 5—3, there was nothing in it. The special correspondent of ■ the “Daily Express’’ says: “The match was the most amazing victory dsn Tislden career. Laieosite deserved 1 , equal praise because he played just uls well as the victor. The crowd ga/v©’ Tilderi a wonderful ovation; when he took the court. Til-den never before employed hsia versatility ' more cunningly and effectively. He reacted to the o-cea.l---ion; bis chops- and slices 'carried more spin than ever. We 'marvelled at the skill with which ho drop-shotted, the ferocity of his driving, the power of bis services.’’

GENIUS v. TALENT. OOGHET-HENNESSEY MATCH. FRENCHMAN ROMPS HOME. PARIS, July 27. Tbo Cbc-kef v. Hennessey' match wa's one between genius' and talent. It writeonly a question of whether the Frenchman would wake up long and often enough .tfo* gather iln tike cxpe-cted victory. 1 Cochet, as usual, did not open wed and gave the American a victory, in ithe first set by his own mistakes. In the second sot the Frenchman a/t intervals showed lightning work, punctuated by feeble patches; Ithercoifter the thoroughly aitoused .Cochet wa's' at his best and just romped home. The last set was one of the most astonishing ever seen, ig international faunas-.' It only 3ulsted ten minutes, atnd Hennessey won only one game. , To-morrow’s doubles wall bo Borotxa a/md Brugnion against Hennessey and Lott.