OVERSEAS TENNIS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1935, Page 11

OVERSEAS TENNIS

AUSTRALIANS PLAY .AT ROME. AUSTIN AND ALLIfeOH WIN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. Rome, April 20. Australian Davis Cup tennis players are participating in the Italian championships. They will play ,at Monte Carlo from Apn 26 to 30 and then go to Eastbourne for the match with New Zealand. They made a successful debut at Rome. Hopman was playing at his best but Quist’s partner Mlle. Payot was not quite up to her usual good form. Results include:— Mixed doubles: Hopman. and Mlle.

Jedrejowska defeated Brugnon and Miss Goldschmidt, 6—2, 6—2. Men’s doubles: Hopman and Palada defeated Sabbadini and Deminerbi, 6—3, 6—4, o—6, 6—3. Crawford, McGrath, Turnbull and Quist were all successful in mixed doubles. i Singles: Canefele defeated Hopman, 6—4, 4—6, 6—3, 3 —6, 6—3. A London cable states that in the finals of the Melbury tennis tournament Austin defeated Rogers, 6—l, 6—2 and Miss Round, defeated Miss Stammers, 8—6,6-0. In the men’s semi-final Austin beat Malfroy, 6 —l 6—o. *■ At Pineburst, North Carolina, Allison won the major honours in the annual north and south tennis championship, winning the singles from Gilbert Hall, B_6, 6—2, 6—4, says a New York message. Paired with Hall he defeated the Canadians Rainville and Watt in the doubles, 6—2, 6—2, 4-6, B—6. , .