TENNIS AT ROTORUA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 546, 26 December 1928, Page 11

TENNIS AT ROTORUA

OPENING OF TOURNEY (Special to THE SUN) ROTORUA, To-day. The Rotorua tennis tournament commenced to-day. The weather is dull and showery. Results: WOMEN’S HANDICAP SINGLES First round —Miss A. Higginson beat Miss Mitchell, B—6; Miss McCrae beat Miss Kuru, B — 4; Miss Humphries beat Miss Waters, B— 4; Miss Hayden beat Miss Wilson, B—6; Mrs. McLean beat Miss Waters, B—7: Miss Leys beat Mrs. Elliot, B—7;8 —7; Miss Warren beat Miss Loffley f B— 7; Miss Beverley beat Miss Campbell. 8—1; Miss Coates beat Miss F. Mitchell, B—2. MEN’S HANDICAP DOUBLES First Round —Brough and Hobbs beat Hay and Morrison, 10 —5; Tonson and Wood beat Bennett and Fraser, 10 —2; Stedman and Miller beat Otway and Barker, 10—1; Paul and Simmonds beat Suker and Anga by default. MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES First Round —Carnachan beat Hosking by default: Ferguson beat Otway, 6—2, G—4; Tukere beat Barker, 6—2, 6 —o; Johnston beat Porter, 6—2, 6—2; Dannafaerd beat Brown, 6—3, 6—o; Storrie beat Bird, 6 —o, 6—o; Royal beat Phillips, 6—5, 6—l; Miller beat Castlebury, 6—l, 6—o; Morrison beat W. Phillips, 6—5, 6—3; Brown beat Johnson, 6—3, 6—2. MEN’S HANDICAP SINGLES First Round —Tonson beat Short, 10—2: Hobbs beat Osborne, 10 —5; Chapman beat Brewer, 10—6 Morgan beat Elliott, 10—0; Simmonds beat Storrie, 10—2; Johnston beat George, 10—7; Robb beat Steadman, 10 —9; Bond beat Hosking, 10—3; Henderson beat Downer, 10—2; Walker beat Johnston, 10— 3. . _ .