FOOT FAULT RULE ENFORCED AGAINST FRENCH IN DOUBLES.
SYDNEY, February 5. In the final- of the doubles championship Brugnon and Borotra beat Willard (New South Wales) and Moon (Queensland), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. Borotra made many wonderful interceptions, but sometimes failed in returns. Willard played magnificently, making winner after winner, seldom missing volley or smash, and carrying the attack to his opponents throughout. Moon was disappointing. He
appeared to be nervy, frequently letting the ball pass him. Brugnon played in a style far away ahead of any exhibition yet given here, and the Frenchmen won the well-earned dou bles title of Australia. Footfaults were frequently called against them, and the action of the umpire puzzled the spectators, in view of the Lawn Tennis Association’s Management Committee’s decision not to enforce a rigid interpretation of the footfault rule in any matches in which the Frenchmen were engaged. The frequent calling upset both Borotra and Brugnon, but they took the decisions in a sporting spirit.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18381, 6 February 1928, Page 6
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