WIMBLEDON TENNIS
(Press Assn.-
SUTTER DEFEATED » CRAWFORD REGARDED AS A COMlNG CHAMPION RECORD ATTENDANCES
— By Telegraph— Copyright).
London, June 30. Sutter is the seeond seeded player to suffer defeat He unexpectedly lost straight sets to Hughes. Crawf ord is now considered a definite possibility for the championship. If Crawford defeats St'edman (New ■ Ziealand), he will meet Hughes in the quarter-finals. Crawford and McGrath (Australia) defeated Gregory and Wilde in the doubles as the Tesult of superibr combination. McGrath, however, was below form owing to a strained leg muscle, and he was eliminated from the mixed doubles. Andrews, Quist and Turnbull passed through the first round of the mixed doubles without the slightest opposition." Stedman (New Zealand) who has been suffering from laryngitis, has recovered with uneXpected rapidity. It is now expected he Will play Crawford on Saturday afternoOn. Wimbledon is growing in popular-' ity yearly, Already all pf evious records have been broken.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19330703.2.54
Bibliographic details
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 573, 3 July 1933, Page 5
Word Count
153WIMBLEDON TENNIS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 573, 3 July 1933, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in