TENNIS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 May 1937, Page 5

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP COMPETITION. AUSTRALIA v. MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, Monday. In the concluding two singles matches in the Davis- Cup contest between Australia and Mexico, J. Bromwich (Australia), replacing Y. B. McGrath, who is in bed with a sore throat, beat Reyes (Mexico), 6/2, 6/2, 7/5, and A. K. Quist (Australia) beat Tapia (Mexico), 6/2, 6/4, 4/6, 6/3. In the first set four games went to deuce-.' In the second there were long rallies, Bromwich winning two games to love. In the third set Reyes used an effective back-hand. The last game went to deuce five times. • Quist won the first four* games and Tapia the fifth and seventh. In the second set, Tapia won the first two, Quist the next three, and Tapia the sixth and seventh. In the third set Tapia won the first three-, Quist the ‘fourth, and Tapia the fifth, after two deuces. Quist won the sixth, seventh and eighth, and Tapia tlie ninth and .tenth- from 30/40. In the final set, Tapiq, who was serving, won the first game to love. Quist won the- next three, and Tapia the fifth. Quist won the sixth to love, Tapia the seventh, Quist the eighth to 30. -. In the. ninth game there were six deuces. Quist had difficulty at times Tapia’s high bouncing ball, resulting in net faults. In the doubles, J. H. Crawford -and A. K. Quist (Australia) beat A. Unda and Hernandez (Mexico), 6/2 1 , 6/3, 6/3. The match was a straight mid-court game. Crawford’s overhead smashes outclassed the Mexicans.