BRITISH TENNIS TEAM
(JIVE BRILLIANT DISPLAYS MISS ROUND IMPRESSIVE (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Approximately 2000 people assembled at Wilding Park to-day to see the visiting English lawn tennis team engage in matches against one another and with leading Canterbury players. A large proportion of those visitors came mainly to see Miss D. E. Round, the first ranked woman player in the world, for, while F. J. Perry, another member of the team, occupies a similar position in men s tennis, he has already played in Christchurch. None could have been disappointed in Miss Round, for she played tennis of a standard that has never before been produced by a woman player in the South Island. Results of the matches were as follow :— F. J. Perry (England), beat C. Angas (Canterbury), 7-9, 6-1, 6-0. G. P. Hughes (England), beat T. Rhodes Williams (Canterbury), 6-1, 6-3. Miss D. E. Round (England), beat Miss N. M. Lyle (England), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. F. J. Perry (England), and H. A. Barnett (Canterbury), beat G. P. Hughes (England), and H. Dymond (Canterbury), 6-1, 1-6, 6-2. Miss E. M. Dearman and G. P. Hughes (England), beat Miss D. E. Round (England), and T. Rhodes Williams (Canterbury), 6-3, 10-8.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 259, 10 November 1934, Page 7
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