Upset In Junior Mixed Doubles

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30960, 17 January 1966, Page 3

Upset In Junior Mixed Doubles

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. The top seeded players won all but one of the five finals in the New Zealand under-19 lawn tennis championships staged at Auckland on Saturday.

B. E. Fairlie and Miss Beverley Vercoe, both of Auckland, dominated the boys’ and girls’ singles.

However, Miss Vercoe lost her chance of winning three titles when she and O. Parun

were surprisingly beaten in the mixed doubles.

Fairlie lost one set in his five matches in the boys’ singles, in the final he had complete control over Parun to win. 6-4, 6-3. Miss Vercoe was even more in command in the girls’ singles, not losing a set and dropping only three games in her five matches.

Miss Vercoe partnered Miss Deirdre Kerr-Taylor (Auckland) to win the girls’ doubles from the unseeded pair, Misses Anne Stevens (Auckland) and Helen Ward (North Shore), 6-3, 2-6, 6-0. Later in the day Miss Vercoe suffered her first reversal in the junior tournament when, with Parun as her partner, she was beaten in the final of the mixed doubles.

The slightly built J. J. Borren (Hutt Valley) scampered tirelessly around the court to help Miss Noelle Hewitt (Wellington) upset Partin and Miss Vercoe, who were seeded top. Borren and Miss Hewitt, the fourth seeds, had earlier eliminated the second seeds, Fairlie and Miss Deirdre KerrTaylor. in a semi-final match and deserved their two-set victory in the final.

Borren and Miss Hewitt won their title a convincing 11-9, 17-5, after an exciting tussle.