TENNIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1926, Page 1

TENNIS.

LACOSTE NOW U.S.A. CHAMPION. [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] NEW YORK, September 18. Til the tennis contests at Forest Hills, Lacoste defeated Borotra G-t, 6-0, 6-4 on Saturday. This is the first all-foreign tennis filial in the history of United States tennis. LACOSTE’S SUCCESS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK* September 19. Something of Lacoste’s overwhelming superiority in winning the national tennis championship can be gained from tlio fact that in his match with Borotra the contest took only fifty-six minutes. He won ten consecutive games, beginning with the seventh in the first set and allowing Borotra only five points in the second set, wherein Lacoste won three games at love. Lacoste made only forty-two errors in the entire match against seventy-eight of Borotra’s. The former’s accuracy was literally uncanv. and he volleyed and lobbed perfectly, displaying perfect stroking with unerring steadiness and complete lack of emotional display. The shock of losing the championship for the first time in twenty-three years since Doherty won it for England in 1903, has turned the American tennis world topsy-turvy and a search has begun for vonng plovers such as has not occurred since 1918. Tennis officials, moreover, admit that the new material available for the corning year is not too great. Only three junior nlayers have apnea rod on the scone since Richards first became a social bnv. The beginners .are namely Lett. Holman and Chandler and those throe "re still raw and untrained and far from first class tournament material, r fis frankly rnnfossWl that United States will lose the Davis f'nn in 1927.