GEOFF. BROWN'S FINE PERFORMANCE.
' LOXDOX, July 4. In a brilliant display, which thrilled | the centre court crowd, Aliss Brough ! beat her Weightmau Cup eolleague, ! Miss Osborne, and will meet Miss Betz I in 1 ho liual in the women's singles at 1 Wimbledon. Misses Osborne and Brough were i seeded numbers two and tlirec respec1 tivel.v and have fought many elose | matehes this season, but this is the | first time that Aliss Brougli has gaine 1 the upper hand. l Aliss Bet/. had an eusy win over anI other Anieriean, Aliss Bundv. j The Auslralians, Geoll". Brown and i Pails, eoinfortably defeated the Yugoi slavs, Alitic and Pallada. in a eolour- | less match to enter the linal of the j men 's doubles. The Americans, Kranu'i'and Tohi Brown, also had an easy win in the other semi-final of the men's i doubles. The youngest Australian ever to eon- ■ test the linal of the men 's singles at ; Wimbledon, the 22-year-old GeolT. , Brown, is given a second-to-none eluuiee of earrying oif the coveted Wimbledon erown. Brown, if he wiiiq ' will not be the youngest world eliampion, however, for Ihe Americans, Vines, Budge and Riggs, all won at 21. Brown, in reaehing the fuials of the men 's singles and the men 's doubles and Ihe senii-final of the mixed doubles, has so far won every one of his 41 sets playcd. 1 1 is opponent in the singles final is Yvou Petra, 84 vears old and (5ft. 4ins7 lie iiojies to be the first Frenchniau ; to take the title since Coehet won it ; in I'JS'J. Despite two years in a Gerj man ]>nsoner of war camp. Petra post sesses great stamina and fieree eour1 age. He never gives up. i Today 's results are: — Women's Singles. Semi-finals: Miss Bet/ beat Aliss | Bundv, () — 2, 6 — 8; ATiss^ Brough beat ; Miss Osborne 8 — 6, 7 — .5. i Men's Doubles. j Semi-fihals: Pails and Qeoff. "Brown beat Alitic and Pallada, 6 — 2, 6 — 4, •' — 8; Kramer and Tom Brown beat Seguni and Patty, 6 — 2, 6 — 3, 6 — 3Mixed Doubles. Quarter-finals: Geofif Brown and M4ss Bundv beat Butler and Mrs. Bostoek, 6 — 3, 6 — 3; Hopman •>nd Miss Osborne beat AfotI'rain and Miss Hilton, 6 — 2, 6 — 2; Tom Brown and Aliss Brougli beat Paisli and j Aliss Dace, 6 — 3, 6 — 2; Patty and Aliss ' Betz beat Pails and Aliss Alenzies, 6 — L 7—5. , . . — tm J
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1946, Page 2
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