LAWN TENNIS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18004, 26 April 1930, Page 19 (Supplement)

LAWN TENNIS.

FRANCE’S SECOND BEST. Mme Lafourie Jung, the second ranking French lawn tennis player of her sex, offers something refreshingly novel in the way of women's play (says the Manchester Guardian). In place of the usual baseline exchanges she likes to volley, and, baulked of her pet stroke, she will half-volley. As if this departure from feminine orthodoxy were not enough, Mme Jung is much better on the backhand than on her other wing. She is no agitated ball-chaser, but a player with a most measured gait her normal pace being a leisurely walk. This last characteristic, howeved, is due to a troublesome knee-joint, the possession of which has undoubtedly robbed Mme. Jung of tbe top-position in France at any rate. At the Beau Site meeting the knee developed trouble that necessitated Mme. Jung’s scratching in the final of the singles, despite heroic measures with the offending limb — Mme Jung on a chair, one man holding her shoulders, and the mighty Aeschiimann tugging at her footMme. Jung is tall and slight, has dark brown hair, and speaks excellent English.

TENNIS ELBOW. What is “tennis elbow”? Mr W. H. Trethowan, orthopaedic surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, London, tries to answer the question in a letter to the British Medical Journal. Mr Trethowan’s treatment and investigation of several severe cases has led him to conclude that tennis elbow is always an inflammatory condition of the lining of the radio-humeral joint (that is, the joint between the outer bone of the forearm and the bone of the upper arm), the inflammation being due to slight and repeated injuries in the shape of shocks or pinchings during certain movements. In the early stages of tennis elbow, rest is essential. If the sportsman neglects thi3 precaution, and his case is thereby aggravated, rest may only result in the inflamed tissues forming wrinkles round the joint. The case then calls for orthopaedic treatment. The sportsman must be rubbed the right way before he can play tennis, or cast a fly again.