BIG TENNIS IN LONDON.
Star Players in Action.
SECOND ROUND OF SINGLES. (United. Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 26. In the second round at Wimbledon, Oochet beat Hopman 6-1, 6-4, 8-6. Tiie impress.on was created that lie Australian ever gave a more cieditaJbls performance at Wimbledon than Hopman. Time and again, when Coehet was at the game point, Hopman returned aces. He has everything that makes a world-beater except experience. His audacity thrilled Wimbledon. Nobody else of Hopman’s physique has ever displayed such a service. .Brugnon beat Holthouse (South Africa), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. Morpurgo beat Williams, 6-2, 6-4. 6-2. Tilden beat Fisher, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1. Ohta beat Zerlendi (Greece), 6-1. 8-6, 6-3. Patterson beat Kleinsehroth, 6-0, 6-2, 6-1. O’Callaghan (Ireland) beat Robson (Argentina), 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. Gregory beat Morca, 6-3, 3-6, 8-6. 4-6, 6-1. Boyd (Argentina) beat Pitt, 6-3, 6-3, 7Bonotra beat Hughes, 1-6, 6-4, 6-3. ,8-6. Lncoste heat Hawkes, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Spence beat Thimmer, 6-1. 4-6, 6-4, 8- 6-3.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17995, 28 June 1928, Page 9
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164BIG TENNIS IN LONDON. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17995, 28 June 1928, Page 9
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