Junior Champion Loses Fighting

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 12

Junior Champion Loses Fighting

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. After a tense, three-set battle in which he survived five match points against him, the defending'champion, G. Eliott ' (Northland) eventually i succumbed to the new I Linton Cup represenla- [ tive, O. Parun (Wellington), when their quarterfinal match in the under I 19 boys’ singles was played at the New Zealand , lawn tennis championships yesterday. | Parun, seeded second, thus ! justified his higher seeding in this premier event with the luckless Eliott, who displayed indifferent form earlier in the season, being seeded only sixth. Parun lead 6-4, 2-6, and 5-1 in the third set when Eliott rallied grimly to save one match point and cracked Parun’s service to trail 2-5. He saved a further three successive match points, and then a fourth after he lapsed disastrously on his own service, but the lean tall Wellingtonian was to be forestalled no longer and he accepted the match at its sixth offering. 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. B. Fairlie (Auckland) and J. Mitchell (Canterbury), seeded first and third respectively, received less resistance from their singles opponents, J. Ross, the Auckland No. 3, and H. Broun, the Auckland [No. 5. Broun was unable to | cope with the accurate play of tl.e Canterbury left-hander land was soundly beaten, 2-6, 10-6. The unseeded pair, Miss Helen Ward (North Shore)

and the 14-year-old “find" of the tournament. Miss Ann Stevens (Auckland) battled their way through a tight two sets to enter the final of the girls’ doubles with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over the fourth seeds, Miss Margaret Kynaston (Australia) and Miss Jenny MeQuire (Auckland).