LAWN TENNIS

Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 53

LAWN TENNIS

FOREST HILLS TOURNAMENT. COCHET WINS THE SINGLES. NEW YORK, September 17. At Forest Hills Cochet won the national singles championship, defeating Hunter 4 —6, 6—4, 3 —6, 7—5, 6—3. WORLD’S LEADING PLAYERS. LONDON, September 18. Mr Wallis Myers, in the Daily Telegraph, places the international tennis players in the following order:—Cochet, Lacoste, Tilden, Hunter, Borotra, Lott, Austin, Hennessey, De Morpurgo and Hawkes. He says that Australia has a brilliant recruit in Crawford, who makes a fine doubles player with Hopman. Crawford’s strokes are more engaging than many first rank lawn tennis players, but he lacks the will to coordinate them. The writer states that he wished that England had two players like them. The women’s best ten, he says, are Miss Wills, Senorita De Alvarez, Miss Akhurst, Miss Bennett, Mrs Watson, Miss Ryan, Fraulein Aussem, Mdlle Bou-» man, Miss Jacobs and Miss Boyd. SUZANNE LENGLEN RETIRES. PARIS, September 19. “ I shall never play tennis again either as an amateur or as a professional. I haven’t touched a racket for months, and I never want to see one again.” This was Suzanne Lenglen’s reply when questioned with reference to press reports that she intended to seek reinstatement as an amateur.

FRENCH PLAYERS IN CANADA. OTTAWA, September 19. In exhibition lawn tennis matches at Montreal, Coehet and Buzelet (France) beat Wright and Crocker (Canada), B—6, B—6. Crocker beat Landry, 2 —6, 6—2; 6—3; Boussus beat La Framboise (Canada), 5—7, 6—l, 6—l. TORONTO, September 22. In an exhibition lawn tennis match between Canada and France Ham beat Boussus B—6, 6—2; Landry beat Nunns 6 —3, 4—6, 9 —7; Cochet beat Crocker 6—2, 6 —2. AUSTRALIANS IN CHICAGO. NEW YORK, September 20. At Chicago Crawford and Hopman advanced to the semi-final round of the United States intersectional lawn tennis doubles, in which they beat the Southern team, Cram and Murray, 7 —9, 6—4, 6—3. In the singles Crawford beat Cram 9—7, 3—6, 6—o; Murray beiit Hopman, 6—4, B—lo, 13—11. CHICAGO, September 22. Van Ryn defeated Crawford 6—3, 6 —o; Hopman defeated Mangin 6—l, NEW YORK, September 22. Crawford and Hopman entered the finals by defeating Van Ryn and Mangin, I—6, B—6, 7—5. WORLD’S TEN BEST PLAYERS. NEW YORK, September 22. Tilden ranks the world’s 10 best players in the following order:—Cochet, Lacoste, Tilden, Hunter, Borotra, Morpurgo, Crawford, Lott, Hennessey, and Boussus.