AMERICAN TENNIS TITLES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22506, 14 September 1938, Page 8

AMERICAN TENNIS TITLES

SURPRISING DEFEAT OP RIGGS NEW YORK, September 12. Results in the American lawn tennis singles championships included; — Men’s Singles C. G. Mako (U.S.) beat F, Puncec (Jugoslavia), 6-2. 6-4, 9-7. Gilbert Hunt (U.S.) beat R. L. Riggs (U.S.), 8-2, 0-6, 9-7, 0-6, 6-4. J. Bromwich (Aust.) beat F. A. Parker (U.S.), 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Women’s Singles Miss Wynne beat Miss Pedersen, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. Mme. Mathieu beat Miss Wheeler, 6-4, 6-1. Miss Bundy beat Mrs Hopman, 6-4, 6-1. Hunt’s victory over Riggs provided the biggest upset so far. Hunt, grimly determined, played a strictly forcing game, concentrating on Riggs’s backhand which is notoriously weak, breaking it down entirely and shattering Riggs’s morale and other strokes in the process. It was only in the second and fourth sets, which Riggs took to love, that he showed his accustomed command. The match between Miss Wynne and Miss Pedersen was somewhat ragged, neither player showing her best form, but the severity of the Australian’s strokes clearly demonstrated her supremacy, and gave her complete control of the situation, except in the second set, in which she seemed to lose touch entirely. Mrs Hopman played valiantly against Miss Bundy, but was no match for the American’s powerful stroking.