Lawn Tennis Volleys.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 695, 25 October 1913, Page 20

Lawn Tennis Volleys.

By Racquet

_ Auckland isanticipating a busy season. -In addition to the regular matches and tournaments, the New Zealand championships aro to be played in the. Queen City at Christmas, and it is probable , that some nlayers from outside New Zea- - land 'will be competitors' at the tournament. Judging by the keenness of It. . N. K. Swanston, of Wellington, the holder of the New Zealand singles championship, he will be a southern visitor to Auckland at crampionship time, so that he can defend the title. . Tbe Auckland Association, like the Wellington_Association, is troubled with the question .of grounds. "A committee ®t. present at work seeking a solution, *nd it' is expected that something definite will be decided upon in the near future. "

The Hastings Club is to: conduct this season's Hawke's Bay championships, 'set down for December / 26th and 27tn. A. propos of .that cable early in the week, giving the London "Times' " opinion .that Wilding is the greatest tennis player the world has even seen, Horace -Ripe: the 'New South Wales jplayer, and one of ' Australasia's last Davis Cup team, 'places Brookes,- Wilding, McXioughlin, and Parke as the four greatest players in the world to-day, and practically in that order, save that he Tuaces Brookes ahead in a three-set and Wilding in a five-set match. Of course, a-five-set match is the only true test. A ■three-set one is too short.