TENNIS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 January 1933, Page 5

TENNIS

NEW ZEALAND TOURNAMENT. TO-DAY’S PLAY. WELLINGTON, This Day. The New Zealand tennis championships were continued to-day in fine weather, but are being marred by a strong northerly wind. The matches) were postponed from yesterday through rain but were continued this morning.

The only surprise was Roussell’s defeat of Robertson, a seeded' player, in a base-line game, in which the winner was infinitely more accurate, handling the wind better, occasionally winning vollies at the net. The results were as follows: —

MEN’S SINGLES. (First Round). E. B. W. Smyth (Marlborough) beat G. S. Wilson (Manawatu), 6/0, 6/0, 6/0. J. J. McCarthy (Wellington) beat K. A. McFarlane (Wanganui), 7/5, 6/2, 6/2. J. G. a’Court (Canterbury) beat G. D. Whitcombe (Wellington), 6/2, 7/5, 6/4. R. A. Court (Hawke’s Bay) beat H. Dickie (Taranaki), 6/4, 6/2, 6/3. E. G. Boddy (Otago) beat J. C. Charters (Auckland) by default. E. A. Pearce (Wellington) beat A. C. Coull (Marlborough), 3/6, 6/3, 7/5, 6/0. R. Hill (Manawatu) beat E. 11. Burton (Taranaki). G. A. Pearce (Otago) beat E. Fouhy (Wellington), 6/4, 6/3, 12/10. W. D. Sykes (Wellington) beat R. R. Lees (Auckland), 7/9, 6/2, 6/0, 6/4. C. E. Malfroy (Wellington) beat J. Sorenson (Manawatu), 6/0, 6/0, -6/0. N. G. Sturt (Auckland) .beat K. W. Dyer (Wellington), 6/1, 6/2-, 3/6, 6/2. 'W. R. Robinson (Canterbury) beat T. Wilson (N.Z. Maori) by default. D. C. Coombe (Manawatu) beat E. H. Orbell (Canterbury), 6/1, 6/3, 6/3. (Second Round).

H. A. Barnett (Canterbury) beat K. G. Sahnond (Manawatu), 6/1, 6/4, 6/3. E. A. Roussell (Wellington) beat W. G. Robertson (South Canterbury), 6/2, 6/3, 6/2.- —‘(-P.A.)