STYLES IN TENNIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 11

STYLES IN TENNIS

AMBIDEXTROUS PLAYERS S. AUSTRALIAN’S GAME Playing in the Australian lawn tennis championship tournament an Melbourne recently was Keg. Clement, a 16-year-old representative to' South Australia, who has the inaC amazingly mixed style imaginable, writes John Bromwich in a Sydney paper. He serves and smashes with the right hand, plays a doublehander on either side for his ground strokes, plays the volley on his left side with his left hand, and the volley on his right side with both hands! It certainly took some time to fathom just what he was doing. One of the most noted of ambidextrous players is G. de Stefani. the Italian Davis Cup representative. He has no backhand, but plays a left-handed and a right-handed forehand. He serves right-hand, but volleys left or right hand. When f first saw him in action, I was amaz ed at the rapidity with which he changed his racquet from one hand to the other at the net. I did not see any player in the United States with a two-handed shot, but competing in the American veteran singles championship was a player named Montell, who played either left or right hand, lik-' dr Stefani. ,