YOUNG TENNIS STAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 10

YOUNG TENNIS STAR

ENGLISH GIRL CHAMPION

MISS J. NICOLE'S SUCCESS

Miss Jean Nicoll, the 15-year-old Harrow girl, won the singles title, G—o, 6—l, in the English junior lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon last month. It was her first attempt. In beating Miss Muriel Harris, also of Middlesex, in the final of the girls' singles, she played with unusual

steadiness, and made hardly a mistake, though she was always hitting hard on the forehand.

Miss Harris did not play at all badly, but had no chance against one who' would have tested players with much greater experience. She had collected the first 11 games before Miss Harris scored her only success, and ran out a comfortable winner on her third match point, having won 51 points to her opponent's 26. During the singles championship Miss Nicoll did not drop a set and conceded only 17 games in .six matches. She more than confirmed the impression that she is the best player of her age since Miss Betty Nuthall. Miss Nicoll accomplished the remarkable feat of going through her first junior Wimbledon unbeaten. She completed a hat-trick, winning the girls' singles, the girls' doubles with Miss M. Harrison, and the combined doubles with her brother, R. C. Nicoll. A single set in the girls' doubles was all she conceded. Miss B. Nuthall performed a similar feat in 1926.