LAWN TENNIS TEST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 23 November 1934, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS TEST.

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S VICTORY.

SYDNEY, Nov. 22. Australia beat Britain in the women’s tennis test by one game, rubbers and sets being equal. To-day’s results are:—

Miss Dearman (Britain) beat Miss Bickerton (Australia), 6—4, 5—7, o—l.

Miss Round (Britain) beat Miss Hartignn (Australia), 6—2, 2—6. 6—3. Mrs Westmneott (Australia) beat Miss Lyle (Britain), 4—6, G—3, 6—2. Misses. Round and Dearman beat iMsses Hartigan and Bickerton, I—6, 6—4. 9—7.

Miss Dearman improved on yesterday’s form, stroking with greater speed and better length. She also took the net successfully. The match between Miss Round and Miss Hartigan was a mixture of good and bad tennis, sparkling rallies being interspersed with bad errors by both. Miss Round won as the result of deeply angled drives and superior conrtcraf't. Miss Lyle was on the defensive throughout against Australia’s hardest hitting woman. Mrs Westmacott has been the outstanding player in the test and was largely responsible for the Australian doubles victory yesterday. Her terrific overspin drives, serves and smashes were too severe for Miss Dearman and Miss Lyle in both singles and doubles. INTER-STATE CONTEST. MCGRATH BEATS HOPMAN. SYDNEY, Nov. 22. In the inter-State tennis tournament New South Wales leads Victoria by 11 rubbers to 2. McGrath heat Hopman, 4 6, 6—3, 6—3. This was McGrath’s first ’victory over Hopman. Bromwich, who is aged 16, beat Hassett, B—6, 6—4. Queensland leads the New South Wales second team by 4 rubbers to 2. Grinsted beat Ferguson, B—6, 5—7, o—3.