NATIONAL DOUBLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 8

NATIONAL DOUBLES

BUDGE’S SORRY SHOWING BIG HEADACHE FOR AMERICANS DAVIS CUP PROSPECTS (Recd This Day, 11.40 am.) BOSTON. August 24. In the United States doubles championship tennis tournament today the following . games were played:— Men’s doubles. —Allison and Van Ryn (U.S.A.) defeated Riggs and Grant 6/1, 8/6, 6/2 Budge and Mako (U.S.A.) defeated Bobbitt and Guernsey 6/3, 6/2, 6/3. Women’s doubles.—Misses Wynne and Coyne (Australia) defeated Mrs Wolfenden and Miss Canning 10/8, 6/2; Misses Stammers and Lumb defeated Mrs Hopman and Miss Stevenson (Australia) 6/1, 1/6, 11/9; Miss Marble and Mrs Fabyan (U.S.A.) defeated Madame Andrus and Mis Henrotin 6/4, 5/7, 12/10; Madame Mathieu and Mlle Jedrzejowska defeated Misses Bundy and Workman u/2, 6/2. Mixed doubles. —Miss Wynne and Quist defeated Miss Winslow and Hughes 6/1, 6/2; Miss Coyne and Bromwich defeated Miss Pat Henry and Owen Anderson 6/4, 6/3; Mrs Hopman and Hopman deefated Madame Andrus and Punces 6/2, 6/3. Mixed doubles: Miss D. Stevenson and Schwartz (Australia) defeated Miss K. Stammers and Pat Hughes (Great Britain), 8/6, 6/2. Misses Wynne and Coyne played loosely in the first set against Mrs Wolfenden and Miss Canning, Miss Wynne in particular being far below top form. A high wind bothered Miss Coyne greatly. The Californians once had the set point but were unable to put over the deciding point. The Australians improved in the second set and won with comparative ease. •

The match between Misses Stammerse and Lumb and Mrs Hopman and Miss Stevenson was easily the most exciting so far in the *women's division. The Australians showed great courage and excellent strategy but were just unable to match the power of the Britishers’ drives. In the final set the Australians had the match point three times in the fourteenth game but each time lost _the point, Miss Stammers proving the* deciding factor. The Australian Associated Press correspondent says that with the Davis Cup challenge round in the immediate offing the national doubles tournament so far has brought only headaches to American tennis officials, with the biggest headache due to the sorry showing of Budge contrasting sharply with the sparkling performance of Quist and Bromwich. There is a growing belief that Budge has had too much tennis and is likely to be much below form in the challenge singles. This possibility is exceedingly upsetting from the American viewpoint, since in considering their prospects the Americans had taken for granted heretofore that Budge would win both singles matches with the margin of victory probably depending on whether Riggs could win one of his singles matches. Now, while the Americans still feel that Budge will, win, they realise that anything might'happen if he is, really badly overtrained. Although Riggs is admittedly a much better singles than a doubles player, his showing in the doubles was mediocre in the extreme, and has not added any cheer to the American frame of mind. There is more than a little speculation concerning the semi-final match of the national doubles between Budge and Mako, and Allison and Van Ryn, since the latter seems much superior in today’s matches. ’