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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 6. 1969.

Tennis

Tennis

Canterbury and Otago proved superior to the other teams as the final points in the tennis section show: Canterbury 12, Otago 10, Auckland 6, Waikato 3. Massey and Victoria ½ pt. , Lincoln 0.

Vic's representatives found the competition tough with no one getting past the second round in either the Women's or Men's sections.

Two of Vic's women representatives, E. Parkin and B. Prior, were eliminated in the first round of the singles, while R. Baird (Victoria) defeated J. Harper (Lincoln) 9-2 before going down in the second round to S. Blakely (Otago) 6-0, 6-0. Vic's other representative in the second round, Janet Miles, was eliminated by A. Stevens (Otago) 6-0, 6-0.

However, both Vic men and women in the teams events defeated Massey.

The former national ranked tennis player, J. W. Mitchell (Canterbury) was the winner of the men's singles title. In the final he defeated the New Zealand under 19 champion I. Baudinet (Auckland) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Another prominent player, A. Stevens (Otago) won the women's singles when she dismissed the top woman in Canterbury, R. Dillon, 6-2, 6-3.

In the men's singles Vic's Ross Colello defeated J. Symon (Waikato) 9-2 and R. Carstens defeated S. Bentley (Otago) to make the second round.

Ross Colello fought his way through to the quarter finals, only to go down to Ray Speed of Otago 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.