LAWN TENNIS.
BRITISH WOMEN PLAYERS.
AUSTRALIAN’S COMMENT,
. Jan. 12. W hat is wrong with British women tennis players ?” asks S. N. Doust, formerly of Sydney, in commenting on filio arriv’al vin the Riviera of the American champion, Miss Helen Wills, to challenge Mulle Suzanne Lenglen. “None of the British players,” Doust continues, “with the possible exception of Miss Kathleen McKane, can beat Miss AVills. Not one of them can even extend Mdllo Lenglen.” Doust considers that the reasons for this stato of affairs are, firstly, that tho British women play in too many tournaments and, secondly, faulty coaching. Tournament players, ho contends, are always striving to win, and so habitually avoid using weak sirones. Therefore, they never improve. Tho British tenuis weakness is partly duo to the professional teachers, vho seek to foist upon pupils their own stylo, instead of developing tho natural game of their pupils All tho greatest tennis players have different styles, with often different grips of the racquet, which aro possibly unorthodox, but never unnatural.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 7
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169LAWN TENNIS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 7
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