TENNIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1921, Page 3

TENNIS.

AUSTRALIANS AT VICTORIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Vancouver, July 9. The Davis Cup team, after exhibition games among themselves, loft Victoria for Vancouver and went to Toronto to-day. Their form was not their beat owing to the voyage.—Aus.K.Z. Cable Assn. WORLD'S WONDER CHAMPION. A writer in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, describing Mdlle. Suzanne Lenglen, the world’s wonder tennis champion, who has announced her intention to visit Australia shortly, says that the wizard of the courts will startle Australia. Suzanne—she is Suzanne to everybody in tennis—almost lives for tennis. She cannot bear any time on the courts to be wasted, and astonishes her opponents by picking up the bails for them. She is 21, and a wonderful general on a court. When, at the age of 15, she came Into the front rank she was good enough to partner Anthony Wilding, and won the world championship on tard courts, she was merely an inexplicable prodigy. She is now so skilled in fhe craft of the game that it Is claimed that there are not a dozen male players in the world who could concede Mademoiselle 15 in a game. Indeed, there was a strong agitation recently to include her in tte French Davis Cup team. In 1919 she won triple world championships at Wimbledon on grass courts —she learnt the game on the true hard courts of the Riviera. The ladies' singles and doubles (with Miss Ryan, of California) and the mixed doubles (with Gerald L. Patterson) went to her tally. repeated her success in the ladies’ championships last year. Mdlle. Lenglen is a most attractive personality. Her lithe little figure, brown face and arms—the latter bare almost to the shoulders —will be a reminder of the sunny south of France. Suzanne is all aggression. She has a girlish modesty, how'ever, that will make her very popular, and is a true sportswoman. Like Tilden, sfc-e purposely nets the ball if a wrong decision favors her. Her play Is superlative—superb driving, volleying and footwork, combined with extraordinary anticipation. She has set a new fashion in Continental and English tennis with her unique style of play and dress.