LAWN TENNIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10859, 31 December 1906, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS.

Ifc (l > SJ>_ > ress Association.) •— -^^"^BRISTCHUROtI, this day. The Australasian and $ew Zealand ■ championship lawn tennis : tournament H was continued this morning \n splendid ■ weather. Hie courts wero Ja fine order. H Good progress is being mai with the B championships, but some of, t lie handicap B erent* are still rather bacli aid, owing B to the inevitable overlapping ,of matches. B The rwulta are:— New /Jfc land men's ■ championship singles, s4son< round: F. M. M. B. Fisher beat C. G. Vhite, 6—3, ■ 6— 8, "6 2, 7—5. Third hound: A. ■Wilding beat, £. Salinoiid, &tked. New Zealand ladies' singles, third bund: Miss' ■ Nunneley beat Miss A. Ward; 6—2, 6-0. W New Zealand jnen'g dou w, second |\ roUJld : Wilding and tTeath *oat R. S. I\and H N. Brown, 6-2, 6-4fi6--3. New ■ Zealand combined doubles, fitet round : II Miss Landemann and Dunlojajbeat Miss Baird and A. D. Cox, 6-4;T|-2. I On the Oibborne Tennis Csb's courts L, at Kaiti several further matches m the IJT present scries of tournaments^ have rebeen played off. Injlie men's nglets, W. G. Evan* (owo 4-l» wae de. tied by A. Simeon (ieo. i.lofi the lat- ; '■ m the. following round d«eatcd G. '' lock ( rec - i- 16 ) °y 4 ~ 6 « "i 4 * 6 ~ 2< and Burke have yet tofplay off, the winner will theu havait© play m the final. The ludi|V single nearly completed, the o? 7 players iv being Miss J>. Bright X' »teh) and Carinichacl (o\v« 40). Tb« way m >lis» Blight hae dispo» 1 ol her opponents points to Che act that much improved since lai : season, oloso cuntost should take place m final, * ' .