TENNIS.
WIMBLEDON TOURNEY. FIRST CLASS SENSATION. (Received Tuesday, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Monday. There is little Avonder that Wimbledon inspires tennis like nothing else on earth. To-day it is a garden party of rare loA'eliness Avith 12,000 present, including many Dominion visitors. There avos a picthrc of frocked society people, flannelled men and gaily costumed Orientals as they paraded the beautifully hedged terraces dmding the most perfect courts CA’er offered at Wimbledon. One heard a dozen different languages, the players alone representing tAvcnty nations. Even the opening day produced a first-class sensation in Andrews’ defeat of Hunter. The folloAving Avcre the results: — Ohta (Japan) beat Stofani (Italy) 6/3, 1/6, 6/1, 6/3. •Landry (France) beat Greig, 6/3, 6/8, 6/4, 4/6, 3/2 (retired). Hughes beat Young (Ncav Zealand) 6/1, 6/4, 6/4.
Crawford beat Ilodges, 6/1, 6/3, 6/2, —Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 June 1928, Page 5
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