STEDMAN IMPROVED

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1935, Page 9

STEDMAN IMPROVED

IN REAL INTERNATIONAL CLASS. ANDREWS BACK IN DOMINION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Dec. 27. Mr. E. D. Andrews, the much-travelled New Zealand international tennis player, who arrived by the Mariposa, said that though he lacked practice he would play in the New Zealand championships at Wellington on Monday. ; He was questioned concerning other New Zealand Davis Cup players and said that Stedman had gone ahead and was in the real international class. He had improved in all departments, and his match with Crawford, the Australian, in the Davis Cup contest was one of the most outstanding in England this year. Malfroy had not been playing in the same number of games, being stationed in the west of England, where opportunities were not as good as at London. Mr. Andrews said the professional game was increasing in strength a little, and it only remained for another half-dozen or so world class players to join and it would occupy a prominent part in world sport. He considers the present lawn tennis standard not equal to that of six years ago, when players like Borotra, Cochet, Lacoste, Vines and Crawford were competing. All these men were champions, whereas to-day there was not the competition in world class tennis.