TENNIS SUPREMACY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21541, 12 July 1933, Page 16

TENNIS SUPREMACY

CHALLENGE TO MRS. MOODY Writing prior to tho Wimbledon lawn tennis tournament. an American critic said: —".Mrs. Moody lias had 10 years of greatness, and two facts arc very evident: There is discernible 110 diminution of her skill and power, and no star of etjual magnitude has yet appeared on the horizon of the lawn tennis world. At Wimbledon it should be Mrs. Moody lirst and the rest nowhere, so grandly does she outclass her field. Returning home for tho Wighhnan Cup match and the American chainpioiiship 0110 is obliged to write ditto; for the winning of all her matches should ho easy for the ipicen of tho court." Mrs. Moody eventually won the Wimbledon title, but not without. ;i serious challenge in the final by Miss D. Kound, of lingland. The score of tj-—t, o—B, o—30 —3 shows that the champion did not have matters all her own way. In fact, tho Knglish girl had an even chance after two sets had been played. If tho remarks quoted above of the American writer regarding Mrs. Moody's skill not diminishing are correct, then Kngland appears to bo well on the way toward regaining tho world's chain pion ship.-—Athletic 1m I i lor.