WIMBLEDON TENNIS

Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1946, Page 2

WIMBLEDON TENNIS

LOXDOX, July 3. ] The Australian Geoll' Brown and ihe : Frenchnnm Y von Petra will contest tlu. j 1 liual of the nieu's singlus championship at Wimbledon. Botli today caiGed | minor surprises when they det'eated i their respeetive oppouents, Drobney ; 'and Tom Brown. i The match between GeolT Brown and Drobney devjeloped into a brilliant oxhibitiou of serving. Drobney could not cope with Brown 's speetl and Brown, at Jirst, could not handle Drobney 's higu jkickers. -Two-hit rallies, punetuated u. ' frequent aces, testiiied to the sustaineJ feroeity of botli players. D ro buy never "lookod like bveaking througu Brown 's cannonbal! service, but tlu: Australian was later able to liaudle tne C/.e.ch 's vicious service. . Brown has put up a reinarkable performance, eu tering the linal witliout the loss of a set. ThC gnnie between l'elra and Tom Brown produced tennis of a verv higii staiulard. Botli jdaycrs made reinarkable reeoveries aiul had the crowd gasping and roaring. Petra 's hani ser viee, iiashing forehand and foreeful volleying eventually avoii the day after he had lost the first two sets. The Freiichman, at first, seeined alTected !>y the boiling sun, but from the beginniug of the tliird set he infused more vciiorn into his ground shots. j The results were: — Men's Singles I Semi-finals: GeofT. Brown be.at 'Drobnv 6 — 1, 7 — 5, 6 — 2. Petra beat ,Tom Brown 4 — 6, 4 — 6, 6 — 8, 7 — 5, 8 — 6. Women's Singles i Quarter-Iinal: ALiss Betz beat ALiss Curry 6 — 0. 6 — 8. | ' Men's Donbles I Quarter-Iinal: vSegura and Patty beat j Answol and Rinkel 6 — 2, 6 — 4, 5 — 7, 8—6. Women' s Doubles Quarter-finals: Misses Betz and Hart Iboat. Aflle. Alathieu and Miss Vorke | '6—4, 6 — 2. Misses' Biough" and' Osborne beat Misses Passingham and Lincoln, 6 — 1, 6 — 1. Alisses Todd and Bundv : beat Misses Vivian and Xuthall 6 — 2, ! 6—3. Mixed Doubles Fourtli round: Tom Brown and Miss | Brough beat Pelli/.za and Mile. Lafl'argue 4 — 6. 6 — 0, 1(1 — 8. Butler i and Miss Bostoek beat Rinkel and M rs. ; Blaisse (i — 2, 7 — 5. Lkiils and Miss I Men/.ies beat Bolelli and Mlle. Ingi-v i bert 6 — 1, 6 — L Hopman and Miss Osborne beat Hardwick and Miss Ilart • 6 — 2, ti — 2. GeofT Brown and Miss Bundv beat Destremau and Aliss Todd 6— 2," 6—1.