- Title: UK: WIMBLEDON TENNIS TOURNAMENT - SECOND DAY.
- Date: 21st June 1966
- Summary: 1. CU RICHEY AND TOYNE WALK ON TO COURT 0.06 2. LV CROWD PAN TO GAME IN PROGRESS 0.13 3. SV RICHEY PLAYS WINS POINT 0.18 4. SV CROWD 0.20 5. LV RICHEY SERVES, RALLY POINT TO TOYNE 0.35 6. LV RICHEY SERVES, GOOD RALLY, MATCH POINT 0.53 7. SV SCOREBOARD 0.55 MATCH BETWEEN NANCY RICHEY AND FAY TOYNE. Initials AA
- Embargoed: 6th July 1966 13:00
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- Location: LONDON
- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVA9THPHTKUBGFC6R66SSNJFID93
- Story Text: THE SECOND DAY OF THE ALL-ENGLAND LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS IS TRADITIONALLY LADIES DAY. CONTINUED SHOWERS DAMPENED THE OFF-COURT FASHION BUT THERE WAS FINE TENNIS ON THE COURTS. ALL THE WOMEN FAVOURITES SURVIVED WITH THE BRAZILIAN, MARIA BUENO, AND THE BRITON, ANN JONES, HAVING THE EASIEST WINS. MARGARET SMITH, SUFFERING FROM HER WELL-KNOWN CENTRE COURT NERVES, MADE A FALTERING START AND HARDEST PRESSED OF ALL WAS THE TEXAN, NANCY RICHEY.
MISS RICHEY, SEEDED NUMBER FIVE, LOST THE FIRST SET TO MISS TOYNE OF BRISBANE, BEFORE SHE PULLED ROUND. MISS RICHEY WON THE MATCH: 1-6, 6-3, 6-0.
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