STYLES OF TENNIS

Northern Advocate, 16 April 1932, Page 12

STYLES OF TENNIS

VIEWS OF FORMER CHAMPION. Discussing in the official organ of the American Lawn ’ Tennis Association, the possible tactics which might overcome Helen Wills-Moody, Miss Browne, a former champion of America, says: “ You must go to the net and keep on going up, no matter if the champion passes yon, no matter if you are “tired.’>

She asserts that women must learn to play closer in, as Henri Oochct and Vincent Richards do. in order to shorten their passage to the net. She believes chat “elosc-in play** is onlv a matter of practice and nerve.

Commenting on this an English critic says: “Miss Browne is a student of the game, but if she had seen -Suzanne Lenglen defeat Miss Wills (as she Was then) at Cannes in 1920, she would scarcely have advocated a volleying- game, Suzanne Lenglen vanquished her opponent by graded length and strength from the back of tlie court, forcing her opponent to come forward rather than moving in herself. Her footwork was immeasurably superior to that of Miss Wills; the only doubt concerned'her physical icson es. Unless girls have a powerful service, by which they -can place the receiver out of position, thtey ought not to come to the not—least of all against Mrs Moodv."