What They Feel Like in Tennis Test Final London, Junè 10.
Oriental games players may appear solemn and unperturbed by triumph or defeat, but inwardly they are "on the bubble" like any European, writes Bruce Harris.
So I am assured by W. C. Choy (or, in the Kho Sin Kie manner, Choy Wai Chuen), who, in the hard-court championships at Bournemouth, met Kho in the first all-Chinese final in the history of important match tennis.
"It is not true that we are not emotional," Choy told me, "but perhaps we are less emotional than Western people. True, this is the first all-Chinese final, but it may be the last one for a hundred years.
"Since you want to know why Chinese can learn to play lawn tennis well, think of the similarity of the game to chess, which we have played for thousands of years. In lawn tennis, as in chess, you have to see some moves ahead; you have to work carefully, and with subtlety, for your effect."
Choy, who is a Cantonese, has been in England most of the time over a period of ten years. He went to school at Framlingham, graduated at Cambridge, where he obtained his Blue, went home for a while and since then has been studying law and political history, and playing tennis, in England,
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