PAIDS' SERVICE FEATURED WIN OVER BROMWICH

Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1947, Page 3

PAIDS' SERVICE FEATURED WIN OVER BROMWICH

Diimy Pails, who has suffered all the vieissitudes of tpnnis,,since, I16 beat me in 'the X.8.W. siiigles ,in' 1945, today sits 011 top of the Austrulian tennis tree, and deserves tliat position. So wrote John Bromwicli in the Sydney Morning Hcrald after his defeat by Pails in the linal of the singles chanipionship of Austi'alia lastt Monday. The niatcli went the full five sets, Pailswinning 4 — G,- 6, — 4, d — 6, 7 — 5, 8-^-0. Pails served 20 aces.in tlie niatch — two with his second sorvice. It was his servicd that skved liim when Bromwicli had a match point at (i — 5 in the final set, Pails went on to win the gkme, broke through Bromwicli 's service with a dazzling line shot ta lead 7-^-0, and took the match with the final set score 8—6. Pails won 14 games by serving aees, and four by forcing Bromwicli into errors from his service. He served four aces in the tenth game of the f'ourth set, to even the score 5 — all, commented an Austral-ian critic. The niatchTasted 2 liours 45 minutes. Broinwich in 'his 1 comment- added:— Pails came back to the form of 1945, and I think that he will stay there. What will assist him is liis new outlook towards nerve-testing tennis, his excellent pliysical" condition — the best he has been in this year — and the improvement in his game and tactics. Pails fought to win this important match, and that recalled the view I expressed in 1945, that there was 110 limitation to his possibilities, if he maintained his standard of play, and faced sfiua.rftlv t!ip. fi'ii.inft'H T)rnblems.

^ X1 — "J o tr - One Weakness. Pails obviously learned much from playing a-gainst the Americans. Yester day the only weakness, minute thougli it was, that I could lind in his game was in his forehand. He did not "eover" tlie ball with this sliot as he did off his backhaud, and against a player who can attaek him all the time he would be hard pressed. Those who saw Ihe niatch probably will have vi'vid recollections of the .scores of " aces, " and almost untouchable services, sent at me by Pails. He eaused the ball to "swing" very cleverly in the wind and made antici patiou almost impossi'ble at times. Pails hit his service with speed and direction whereas I was always troubled with my own service. . Olever Taptics. Pails was clev>er in his exploitation of a forehand shot from the niain grandstand end. He drove straighl down the line and followed his shot to the net, as I waited to judge what eft'ect the, wind would have upon its movement. • Often my intention to strive for a passing. shot was thwa'rted by having to play a close-to-the-body-sliot, as the ball veered in and created a defensive return. From tlie opposite end Pails' backhand dealt out death to any short returns with a line-clipping winner. His backhaud was very sound on the day; its direction well concealed. Though my two-handed shot has improved since the Davis Cup, it was not -sufficiently powerful or accurate to deter Pails when he decided to come to the net. It was Pails' day yesterday, and no one is more worthy of the Australian singles erowa0 ' ;'