LADIES' TENNIS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 139, 4 February 1932, Page 5

LADIES' TENNIS

FASHION SET BY BEST PLAYERS DEMANDS STOCKINGS. grass courts all year ROUND. "I have been asked that question before," said Miss N. Lloyd, when asked by a "Post" representative on Tuesday evening ^what she eonsidered tbe eorrect t6nnis attire for -women. Miss Lloyd is eaptain and manager of the New South Wales Ladies' tennis team at present visiting Rotorua in the course of a comprebensive Dominion tour. "In Sydney we all wear white stockings, and this is generally accepted as tho standard. The fashion, of course, is always set by the best players, and tbe best players in Australia wear stockings. When in 1928 We sent a team home to England our fashions were copied there and still are." Miss Lloyd was very enthusiastic about the organisation of the New Zealand tennis tournament held last week in Auckland, and eonsidered that New Zealand had nothing to learn from Australia in the running of such tournaments. The umpires and the linesmen, Miss Lloyd stated, were most efiicient and the players were eonsidered in every possible way. All members of the team were very favourably impressed with New Zealand and eonsidered that they were most fortunate in having only two wet days on the tour. Miss Lloyd paid a trihute to the hospitality of New Zealand tennis cluhs; everywhere they had heen well treated and their comfort had heen eonsidered in every way and although it had taken them a while to hecome acelimatised, all members of the team were feeling fit and were looking forward to seeing more of New Zealand. They had, of course, found the sulphur atmosphere of Rotorua somewhat heavy, hut expected to become accustomed to it very shortly. Miss Lloyd, who, in the course of nine yeafs has visited New Zealand six times, to play tennis, and who has twice held the New Zealand ladies' tennis championship title, eonsidered that the general standard of women's tennis in New Zealand had decidedly improved during the last two years. Although it was impossible to compare New Zealand tennis with that of Australia, the tennis playing population of Australia being several times larger than that of New Zealand, Miss Lloyd was very favourably impressed with tennis play in the Dominion. Moreover, in Sydney there wore forty grass courts about ten minutes walk from the city, always in use. Summer and winter they were able to play on grass and : their game was not affected hy the usual change from grass to asphalt. In Brisbane, of course, the intense heat made tennis play during the summer months quite impossible. Every member of the visiting team, with the exception of Mrs. Molesworth, who came from Brisbane, was a Sydney player, said Miss Lloyd. Miss J. Hartigan, she eonsidered, was the youngest junior champion to hold the Australian Junior championship title for at least 15 years.