TENNIS RANKING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 7

TENNIS RANKING

London Critic Places Budge First WIMBLEDON & U.S. VICTORIES (Received 23, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22. Mr Wallis My^re, in the Daily Telv graph,. announces 'his tennis rankiug aa follows:— Men: Budge, von Crummv Heukel, Austin, Riggs, Urant, Crawford, Meuzel, Parker, Hare. Women: Miss Lizuna. Mrs Littlo (Dorotky Round), Miue. Jedrzcjowska, Miss H. Bperiing, Mrs Mathieu, Miss Jacobs, Miss Marble, Miss HoriJ« .Miss Hardwick, Miss Bundy. "Budge," adds Mr Myers, "is inevitably No. 1. He lost only three sets in winning the Wimbledon and American titlos, a .unique record. Moreover, he is younger than were either Tilden or Perry wlien they gained the double crown in. the same year, and he is mor» consistent, He is a greater matchwinner than von Oramm. who is obviously No. 2. "Heukel is Europe's most improved pl&yer, Quist might have been No. 3 if illness had not kept him out of big tennis. That position, or a higher, will be reserved for him next ycar. "Crawford cannot be excluded after his flne play against Menzel and von Cramni at Wimbledon. He has only to play less to regain his former firc. "McGrath is expluded reluctantly, and Bromwich needs another ycar for hardening. "Miss Lizana has three times beaten Mrs Little in the past year, and she has also beaten every other player in the first seven at least once."