Mrs. B. Krenov, Shanghai's foremost player among lady tennis exponents, will fight for the city's championship this afternoon on the Association court, starting at 3 pin., against Mrs. R. Fletcher, former star of Hongkong. Both finalists emerged victorious in the semi-finals which took place yesterday when the former eliminated Miss J. Holwill by 7-5, 6-1, and the latter disposed of Mrs. T. Collaco after going into the third set, with the final score reading 6-1
4-6, 6-3.
Both losers played nothing like their usual selves. Miss Holwill failed to mix her game up and was content to only keep the ball in play to her opponents liking. On baseline Miss Holwill could never surpass Mrs. Krenov, who possessed the forehand strokes of a man and had a manlike pace about the back court.
Mrs. Krenov began brilliantly with fairly strong service and took the first two points. Miss Holwill hit back and reached deuce. Three times the did not expect to play an aggressive game. She would rather wait for opportunities to pop up and then apply pressure. But, strange as it was, Mrs. Collaco was too slow to pull herself together and before she found her feet Mrs. Fletcher had already run up an advantage of four-nil-with which the leader captured the opening set by 6-1 In the second set Mrs. Fletcher resumed her pace. She outrailled the Portuguese star most of the times and gradually lengthened the lead until it reached 3-1. The threat of losing two straight sets woke the trailer up, who ran it out with accurate drives to either wing, supplemented by some good forecourt playing volleying. In no time the margin was equalized and after Mrs. Fletcher bagged e seventh game Mrs. Collaco forged ahead by the annexation of the following three games to stretch the contest into the third and deciding round, produce keen competition as the The final stanza, howeverfailedzto former Hongkong exponent came back to form. As if released from a com-
Pressed spring, the ultimate winner retrieved her game and kept up a constant driving pressure to net four games in a row. The trailer fought determinedly and closed the big gap World Series to Begin On October 5
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