TENNIS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12258, 8 June 1914, Page 5

TENNIS.

WILDING IN - GREAf FORM. [By Eleotbio Teleciiaph—Coptright.l (Peb Pbess Association.) Received June 7. at 2.50 p.m. London, June 6. . Playing at. Liverpool in the tennis semi-finals, Dunlop beat Powell (Canada) 6—3, 6—2. Brookes and Dunlop beat Read and l Price I—6, 6—l. 6—2, 6—4. Doust and Mavrogordato beat Charlton and Redcliffe. 6—4, 6—2, 6—3. . . In the mixed doubles Doust and Miss Morton beat Brookes and' Mrs Lambert, Chambers, qualifying to meet Parke and "Sirs Larcombe, the of the •title. The score was. 7 —5, G-—l. The match, which was exciting, was fought in gusty wind and rain. Received June 7, at 5.5 p.m. Paris, June 6. r Wilding defeated Decugis bv 6—l, 6—2, 6—l. W ? ilding outclassed Decugis, whose first service constantly failed. Wilding, playing perfect tennis, commenced with powerful driving from the base line. Then for a time he went jn to the net and smashed, finally reverting to the base line. He was in invincible form throughout the tournanrent. •Received June 8, at 0.20 a.m. London, June 7. At Liverpool the finals of the Mixed Doubles resulted: Parke and Mrs Larcombe beat. Doust and Miss Morton, 6—3, 6—l. Mavrogordato beat Dunlop, 9 —7, B—6, 6—2. Brookes and Dunlop beat Doust and Mavrogordato, B—6, 11—9, 6^-2.