The Archive · 1940

Wimbledon This Year

No Plans Made Yet for Tennis This Summer London, Mar. 19.

Despite persuasion from sports writers and players, the lawn tennis authorities have so far made no practicable suggestion about the possibility of holding any competitive sport this summer, even in a very limited form.

Wimbledon seems to be out of the question. The courts might be available but it appears that national service has requisitioned most of the accommodation.

Nevertheless, that is no reason why a substitute "Wimbledon," in a restricted form, should not be staged somewhere else and lawn tennis enthusiasts are waiting anxiously for further information on the subject.

An eme committee of five has been acting for the Lawn Tennis Assopiation since the outbreak of war Put they have not yet made any report on prospects for the future.

"Young players ought to get any chance of practice and the game should be kept going. We want to become a council of action again," a of the L. TA. is reported to have seid—Reuter.

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