TENNIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1926, Page 1

TENNIS.

[Australian A N.Z. Gallic Association.] THE SYDNEY TO CBN FA . SYPNK Y. April 18. The iminis championships were pjaycl yesterday in slum cry weather, the | suiri being delayed owing to the soil I state Ol 1 lie courts, as llie result ol ■ the heavy rain overnight. K ( I matches bail In lie postponed, j In tlie semi-finals of the men s sinl| ides championship, Kalins had a de- | cisive win over Baker ill three straight 1 sets. His placing and l.ack-liaml work J was too much for Baker. The scores 8 were B—6, 6 — l, 6 -• J The other semi-final was between 1 Milliard and Andrews. Tlie court was J very soft and became much churned 1 up. and the players, although using J spiked slices, had a difficulty in kcop- * ing their footholds. \\ illi aril was uuJ aide to adapt himself to the conditions aS iim | he played eraticiillv. Andrews J placed his shots with much more jml mi'ii 1-. and won the first set o—3. J When the second set was 3- 2 Andrews i* leading, play was abandoned for the m day on account of rain. * j,, (he filial of tlie women’s ehanis| pionship of New South Wales, Miss. [J Boyil beat Miss Aklmrst (holder) 4-0, J f, o, o—o. Miss Akhurst was well hell low her usual form. AUSTIN BEATEN J |“ LONDON, April 17. ”1 At Torquay, in the- British hard I courts dhampionship final. Brugnon ■j heat the nineteen-year-old Cambridge i| freshman, H. \\ ■ Austin, who is 10 garded as England’s now hope, as fol it i„ws:—7—s, 4—6, 3—6, B—6, 6—3. Miss Joan Fry boat. Mrs Watson ' i G—L 7—9, 6—l.