TO-MORROWS MATCH

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 31, 7 February 1933, Page 9

TO-MORROWS MATCH

CHOOSING THE TEAM

Hay in the tennis Test match. Taetween New Zealand and the American visiting team will commence at' the. liEiamar Grounds at I p.m. to-morrow •with the first o£ four singles matches; the- draw . Laving been, arranged, as follows:-— .'•..•■■• K. Gledhill v. O. Angas. J.: vain Byn v. D. G. Prance. E. Vines V.-.E. D. Andrews. W. Allison v. 0. E. Malfroy. The matches will be played in succession in that order. The doubles will follow, Allison and van Kyn meeting th& New Zealand second selection, and Vines and Gledhill the- New Zealand No. 1 pair. The New Zealand pairs are being selected this afternoon. * Trials for the doubles were to have been, played over yesterday and to-day, but tho heavy xains of the past week have made it impossible for play to start until this afternoon, and aa all the players are in need of good singles practice the object of picking a well-balanced doubles team has had to be sacrificed to the need of giving the New Zealand side as much tennis as it can get. This means that N. E. 0. Wilson's chaneo of playing himself into the doubles team has vanished, and the problem will be the best pairing of the four players chosen for the singles. In all probability, if no serious tryouts take vplace for the doublos, the first pair will be Malfroy and France, with Andrews and Angas playing second. The question of third and fourth singles men also remains to bo determined. THE TIRSfc iIAXCH. The match between the "United States and New Zealand to-morrow will be < the first in tho history of the game, and despite, their long tour the Americans will still be a formidable side. Vines, now' conceded to be the first player in the world, will bo matched with Andrews, the present Now Zealand champion, and the game should be one of the most spectacular ever witnessed in the city. Andrews proved in the national championships that he has very nearly approached the peak of his form, and Vines's brilliance, which last year won him tho big ''double" of tennis, the Wimbledon singles and American national singles, can have' been marred very little /by his months, in Australia. Vines's victims include Cocliet (twice) Austin, Clifford Sutter -(last season' the player who niado the most striking advance in tho United States), and Crawford (Vines lout only six games to tho Australian player 'in the semifinal at Wimbledon, and only one set in the Davia Cup). He is still only 21 years old, and was ranked No. 3

in the World's First Ten when scarcely out ,of his 'teens.

Wilmer L. Allison, the United States captain, and the oldest player in the team, is 28 years old, and has been representing the United States in the Davis Cup contests Bince 1929. In that year he and van Eyn defeated Cochet and Borotra in the doubles, and took the Wimbledon championship, beating three great pairs, Coehet and Brugnon, Tilden and Hunter, andGregory' and Collins, In. 1929 Allison reached : the final at Wimbledon, beating Coehet, 6-4, 0-4, 6-3 in the semifinal, but lost to Tilden, 3-6, 7-9, 4-6. In 1930 Allison won the mixed doubles championship "of the\ United States, and, with van Eyn, the Wimbledon doubles, but for the Davis Cup he was beaten by Coehet and Brugnon by three sets to one. In 1931 he won the American doubles with van Eyn, but did not go abroad with the Davis Cup team. FINE.DOUBLES PLAYEK. J. van Eyn ,is 26 years old and represented the United States in the Davis Cup for the first time in 1929. His history in doubles has been linked •with that of Allison, but in 1931 when Allison did not go abroad, van Eyn was a member of the American side, whiflh was beaten by Britain in the Davis Cup inter-zone- final. With G-. M. Lott, van Eyn had a great record in doubles that year, for he won the Wimbledon" and French championships, and the Davis Cup match, and then Teturned to the United States to again win the national championships with Allison. K. Gledhill is a young player, and Vines Js doubles partner. Together they share the American doubles championship at the moment. Gledhill has won many important tournaments, but this was his first big national success. In Australia he won the Australian doubles championship with Vines, beating Crawford and Moon in straight sets in the final, and he was also in the singles'final, in which Crawford defeated him, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.