LAWN TENNIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16327, 17 January 1921, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

CANTERBURY Y. NEW SOUTH WALES. At tho United courts tiiLi morning, «- two ituys' n*atch wjw coiimicnted bo tween Canterbury and the touring New South "Wales toaru. W. Gos 3 was elected Canterbury captain, and. he and Marsh, the Sydney captain, •arranged n. draw of ten singles and nine doubles. Tlio singles were started this morning, when some very fine tennis was witnessed, although the courts were a bit slow after the rain. The results up till lunch time are as follows, the visitors beinir mentioned first: Marsh beat Aitken, 2-6, C-4, 6-2. F. Peach lost to Goss, 5-7, 3-6. Watt boat Quill, 6-4. 7-». .Henderson boat Wilding, 7-5, 6-2. WATT v. QUILIi. Although Quill went down m two straight sets, there wera somo very fine rallies, and both men or.iae out and volleyed well, Quill making greater use of the net position. Watt won the first set, 6-4, but the second e'et was much more interesting. Watt cot- » groat deal of pace on his drives, but Quill got iu some very pretty parsing shots. -H« was leading 4-3 when Watt scored oh three net cord shots in ouick succession, enabling him to draw level at 4 all. Quill had a very gruelling service, but his luok was in, and’ after several deuces lie ran out with a net cord shot. Watt, however, took a love game off his service, and ran out a winner after a grout game, 6-4, 7-5. % iF PEACH v. W. GOSS. In his match against Goss, F. Peec.h was not quite at home on the course, and gave evidence of being capable oi much _ better play. Goss, however, played extremely well getting in come beautiful shots. His if-st drives down the side-lines were particularly effective. The court was too dead for Peach, end tho balls did not rise to him. An occasional high bail, nowever, gave him tne opportunity he required, and then his brilliant shots left iioHa standing. There were lew very long rallies -during the game, each, player trying to kill on the first or second HENDERSON v. WINDING. Henderson's volleying ga-rne served inir* well against Wi.ding, who did not get up very often. In the first set both men wore serving really well, and neither could do much with tho other's service. The games ran to 3 all. Henderson 3i*d the better service, his forehand cut service coming very fast. His condition was better than Wilding’s, and alter rke advantage set ho ran to 4 love, but the remaining lour games were divided. Henderson winning tho lust game to love with three service acea. MARSH v. AITIIEN. A game of long bowls was indulged in by Aitken and Mareh, neither of whom showed any inclination to come in to the net. Aitken, with a rather harder service, took the • iirsb eat-, 6-2, and was leading iu tho next, 4-2, but Marsh won the next icur games, evening the seta. In the deciding set Aitken. won the first game, but was never again in tho load. Marsh winning, 6-2, in a rather colourless finish, in which Marsh was able at last to get his opponent running a. bit. There were remarkably few earned acea in tho match. N. PEACH c. GREENWOOD. The greatest interest centred in the match between N. Peach, tho leading man of the visiting team, and P Greenwood. Greenwood serving was 15-40, Peach lobbing successfully, but Greenwood drew level with wed finished drives, and won the game after deuce had been called three times, his first service coming in useful. Peach evened the games with a very fine Bervice. Once aga-in deuce was called several times off Greenwood’s service, but he won the gome and also Poach’3 ser vice, thanks to perfectly finished ground shots. Ho was 4-1 with the next, in which Peach only got one &c&, but Peach started tho next game with a lucky net cord shot, and won the next two with the loss of an e-co in oaoh, scoring off a c-ouple of chopped shots that just fell over. In the eighth game, serving, he was 15-40. but pulled the* garni, out of the fire by judicious placing, and wag ■1 all. Greenwood lost the next partly owing to a weak second service, but won tho next after some brilliant rallies, in on© of which he made a great effort and picked up a short dropped shot. He was 40-15 in the next, which he won with a nice volley by following his service. Peach serving was 0-40, thanks to brilliant passing shots by Greenwood. The Canterbury man netted in th© next rally, but ran out winner of the set with a beautiful forehand ercsti court drive. The remaining' games are as follows : STNGDE3. 4 N. Peach v. Greenwood, N. Peach v. Aitken. Marsh v. Greenwood, Henderson v. Quill. Watt v. "Wilding* P Peach v. Clark. DOUBLES. First Round, Peach Bros. r. Aitken and Wilding. Marsh and Watt v. Goss and Greenwood. Henderson and N. Peach v. Quill and Clark. Second Round. Peach Bros. v. Goss and Greenwood. Ma*sh and Watt v. Aitken and Wilding. Henderson and Marsh v. Quill and Clark.

Third Round. Peach Bros. v. Quill and Clark. Marsh and Watt v. Goss and Wilding. Henderson and Watt v. Aitken and Greenwood.