THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1938.
ENTERTAINING TENNIS AT HK.C.C
GONSALVES PLAYS WELL IN KEEN DOUBLES TIE
(By "ADREM")
IN at least two of the games in the Colony Open Tennis Championships at the Hong Kong Cric- ket Club yesterday, there was no cause for com- plaint either regarding the standard or the enter- tainment.
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RESULTS AT
A GLANCE
SINGLES
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E C. Fincher beat A. Crawford
6-1, 6-4
S. A. Ramjahn beat W. A. Land
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Wong Shin-wing beat R. H. Rump
6-3.7-5.
DOUBLES AV. Gosano and A. V. Remedios best H. A. Barros and John Gonsalves 6–0 4–6, 6–1
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It was hard-hitting game throughout, both pairs preferring to lose points in going for win- ners rather than play canny and wait for the other side to make the mistakes.
OTHER GAMES
In the other two gamės, S. A Rumjahn. conceded eight games to the hard-hitting Land, while Wong Shiu-wing was fully extended by R. H. Rump, whose inability to stand up to the pace, cost him the match.
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YOUTHFUL ALEC CRAWFORD - WENT DOWN TO HIS CLUB-MATE, THE SEASONED TEDDY FINCHER, BUT SHOW-refusing to be denied, took the set sports will be held on the ED QUITE A LOT OF PROMISE IN THE PROCESS, WHILE AN- at 6-4
ground, Causeway Bay, on Satur- OTHER CLUB TIE BETWEEN A. V. GOSANO AND A. V. REME- They then led 3--1 in the final set day. Mr. C. G. Sollis, Senior: In- DIOS AND H. A. BARROS AND JOHN GONSALVES, but were caught and finally passed, spector of Schools, will distribute WENT THE FULL DISTANCE AND PROVIDED SPECTATORS Barros spasmodic brilliance fail- the prizes about 4.30 p.m.
WITH A FULL MEASURE OF THRILLS.
Crawford, overawed by thef reputation of his opponent and the fact that he was playing on No. 1 court, started very shakily and lost the first set without offering a great deal of opposi tion.
In the second set he improved considerably and driving consis- tently on both hands held his own until 4-all, when Fincher exerted that slight pressure which he al- ways had in reserve, and won the next two games for the set and match.
I felt that Fincher played well within himself throughout. The slightly damp court made his sliced backhand difficult to pick up, while his forehand drive-about which so much ink has been spilt by local critics in the last three years-was functioning as well as it has ever done..
Actually, Crawford at his best almost matched his opponent with his driving but Fincher was always able to dictate terms from the net, where his volleying proved to be as sound and as deadly as of old.
GONSALVES ON PEAK FORM
Gosano and Remedios were gen- erally expected to beat Barros and. Gonsalves, and they did. They must have felt rather diffident about the result on several occasions dur-
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ing the final set, however, when Gonsalves played at peak form to pull out some of the finest strokes of the whole encounter.
At the outset, Barros, obviously out of practice, was pathetically erratic and Gosano and Remedios, sensing their superiority at this stage, went for winners all the time and brought them off. Gosane was playing a fine all round game and Remedios was not far behind him in any department.
Any successes which came the way of Barros and Gonsalves were the result of the fine work of thei latter, who on many occasions was the finest player on the court. His driving, especially on the forehand, was masterly, while his volleying was extraordinarily sound with heaps of punch behind it.
FORTUNES VARY
When Barros at last started to find his touch, early in the second set, and Gosano and Remedios, un- consciously slackened off, a change came over the complexion of the game. Barros and Gonsalves went to a 3-1 lead, were overhauled, batt
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