STRAIN OF TENNIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18378, 21 April 1934, Page 7

STRAIN OF TENNIS

EFFECT ON PLAYERS SPECIALIST’S VIEWS MELBGL'RNE, April 11. A Collins street specialist, woo examined Jack Crawford when lie was suffering from nervous exhaustion after bis return from abroad last year, said that be considered that tile continuous strain of playing big tennis matches over a long period was responsible for file dentil ol Jiro Satoh. The, specialist said that big tennis, more than any other sport., tended to wreek a player's nervous system, because the leading players of the world usually played in championship matches throughout the year without any long breaks away from the game. Satoh had played tennis continuously since his visit to Australia in 1931-32. Every important match took heavy toll of the player's nervous system, until, in the ease oi Satoh, the system laid evidently completely broken down. Tiie doctor added that most of the collapses of leading sportsmen —such as that of Vines in the Davis Cup play in France last yean Crawford in the l nited States’ singles final against Berry, and Bra...aan at. tla- beginning of the last test i-.ies—-we.v due to nervous exhaus-

tion nr neiirasl henia. The effect of their sport on these players was the same as the effect of continuous worry on business men.