LAWN TENNIS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 23

LAWN TENNIS.

NEW ZEALAND FORM PRAISED. AUSTRALIAN TEAM’S IMPRESSIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, February 10. The members of the New South Wales lawn tennis team who returned from their New Zealand tour by the Niagara, were greatly impressed with the marked improvement in the standard of play in the Dominion, and by the number of promising players who are rapidly coming to the front. Mr. Frank Peach, the captain, speaks highly of several of the younger New Zealanders, and specially mentions Malfroy. a 17 years old prodigy, who, he says, "has a magnificent stroke equipment and an uncanny judgment quite unique in such a young player. He predicts for him a fine career in championship tennis, and also thinks a great deal of E. D. Andrews, N. Wilson, Sturt, and Haege. All the members of the team refer enthusiastically to the Rotorua trip. Mr Peach regards the Maoris as a force m tennis that will have to be reckoned with before very long. “They have remarkably keen eyesight,” commented Mr Peach, “and are as quick as lightning about the courts. They also possess quite a range of natural strokes, and are eager to copy the styles of different players.” Given proper tuition the Maori should produce players equal to our best, commented Mr Peach. The members of the team found that the New Zealand courts varied a good deal in pace, a circumstance which always had them at a disadvantage.