TENNIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 2

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP CONTESTS. NORWAY ELIMINATED. LONDON, May 21. Davis Cup second round results are: At Zagreb, Mitic (Yugoslavia) defeated Mutler (Britain), 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. Puncec (Yugoslavia) was leading Shayes, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 3-2, when bad light stopped play. At Marseilles, Petra (France) defeated Nogues (Monaco), 6-1, 6-1, 6-0; Destremeau defeated-Medecin, 6-3, 6-0, 6-1. At Berlin, Germany eliminated Norway. Metaxa and Henkel defeated Haanes and Jensen, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. G. Metaxa (Germany), who replaced G. Cramm, beat J. Haanes (Norway), 2-6, 5- 6-2, 7-5. At Stockholm, Schroder (Sweden), defeated Fischer (Switzerland), 8-6, 6- 6-0; Maneff (Switzerland) defeated Rholson, 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. Schroder and Rholson defeated Fischer and Maneff, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5. SURREY TOURNEY. WIN FOR MRS. WILLS-MOODY. LONDON, May 21. Results in the Surrey tennis tourney are:— Women’s singles.—Final: Mrs Helen Wills Moody beat Miss Lumb, 6-3, 6-4. Women’s doubles, semi-final: Mrs •Hopman and Miss Stevenson beat Mrs King and Mrs Pitman, 6-4, 6-2. Final: Misses N. Wynne and T. Coyne (Australia) beat Mrs Hopman and Miss Stevenson, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Men’s singles, final: Oliff beat Filby, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. Men’s doubles, final: Lee and Sherwood beat C. E. Malfroy (New Zealand) and Kho-Sinkie (China), 8-6, 7-5. Mixed doubles, fourthlround: Oliff and Miller beat Malfroy and Miss B. Nuthall, 2-6, 6-4, 12-10.