The final of the Singles Championship was played at the Country Club on Saturday afternoon in perfect weather before a large crowd, and resulted in a victory for Mr. W. 8. A. Pott, who defeated Mr. J, Tanaka, holder of the championship in 1918 and 1919, in three straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
The result was not altogether a surprise for the admirers of Mr. Pott's game, who believed that his fine powers of attack might surprise and overcome the more defensive methods of his active and clever opponent, but so easy a victory was scarcely anticipated. Mr. Pott has suffered for a long time past from a troublesome knee, but this misfortune-did not appear to affect his game on Saturday. The feature of his play was his powerful driving, both from fore-hand and back-hand. He kept the ball low, put a great deal of pace into it, and, above all, hit an excellent length.
Mr. Pott started well by taking the first two games fairly easily in the opening set, and ran to 4-2. His opponent brought the score at that point to 4 all, but from that moment he never seemed to get on terms throughout the match. Mr. G. Pott took the set at 6-4, and ran to 4-1 in the second. He then lost 2 games, but had not much difficulty in securing that set also at 6-4.
Winning the first three games of the final set, he lost the next 2, but, aided perhaps by a little luck when victory was well in sight, he yan out an easy winner at 6-2.
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