STYLES IN TENNIS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23284, 1 March 1939, Page 20

STYLES IN TENNIS

AMBIDEXTROUS PLAYERS Playing in the Australian lawn tennis championship tournament in Melbourne recently was Reg. Clement, a 16-year-old representative of South Australia, who has tho most amazingly mixed stylo imaginable, writes John Bromwich in a Sydney paper. He serves and smashes with the right hand, plays a cloubleliander on either side for his ground strokes, plays the volley on his left side with his left hand, and tho volley on bis right side with both hands! It certainly took some time to fathom just what he was doing. One of the most noted of ambidextrous players is G. de Stefani, the Italian Davis Cup representative. He has no backhand, but plays a lefthanded and a rigli-handed forehand. He serves right-hand, but volleys left or right hand. When I first saw him in action, I was amazed at the rapidity with which he changed his racquet from ono hand to tho other when at the net. I did not see any player in tho United States with a two-handed shot, but competing in the American veteran singles championship was a, player named Mentell, who played either left or right hand, like de Stefani.