1928 Australian Championships – Mixed doubles

Mixed doubles
1928 Australian Championships
Final
Champions	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra
Runners-up	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes
Score	w/o
Details
Draw	20
Seeds	4
Events
Singles men women boys girls Doubles men women mixed boys girls
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Second-seeded Daphne Akhurst and Jean Borotra won the final on a walkover against the first seeds Esna Boyd and Jack Hawkes, to win the mixed doubles tennis title at the 1928 Australian Championships.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Originally this final (as well as men's singles and men's doubles finals) was scheduled to be played on Saturday, February 4. As the tournament progressed, it turned out that Borotra would have been engaged in all three of them. He refused to play three matches in one day and wished to forfeit in mixed doubles event. This was not agreed to by the committee and his semi-final and subsequent final mixed doubles matches were postponed until Monday, February 6. Unfortunately, Miss Boyd, who had been in Sydney for a fortnight (as the women's events have begun on 21 January), could not arrange to remain longer and had to scratch.^[7][8]

Both Miss Akhurst and Jean Borotra completed a Triple Crown achievement, having already won their singles and doubles titles.

Seeds

Draw

Key

Finals

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
	2	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra	6	6
		Joan Wheaton Dick Medcalf	1	1				2	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra	6	3	6
		Kathleen Le Messurier Norman Peach	4	4				3	Sylvia Harper Jacques Brugnon	0	6	3
	3	Sylvia Harper Jacques Brugnon	6	6											2	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra	w/o
	1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes	7	4	6										1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes
		Pattie Meaney Fred Kalms	5	6	3			1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes	6	8
		Mrs. F. Harper Elliott M. Dunn	3	2				4	Louie Bickerton Christian Boussus	1	6
	4	Louie Bickerton Christian Boussus	6	6

Earlier rounds

Section 1

	First round							Second round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
								2	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra	6	6
									Kath Hayes Cecil Ward	2	0
															2	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra	6	6
																Joan Wheaton Dick Medcalf	1	1
									Joan Wheaton Dick Medcalf	2	6	6
									Lorna Utz Darby Louden	6	2	4
																						2	Daphne Akhurst Jean Borotra	6	3	6
																						3	Sylvia Harper Jacques Brugnon	0	6	3
									Kathleen Le Messurier Norman Peach	1	6	6
									Marjorie Cox Gar Moon	6	3	4
																Kathleen Le Messurier Norman Peach	4	4
		Birdie Bond V. E. Page	6	6											3	Sylvia Harper Jacques Brugnon	6	6
		Grace Paterson James Bayley	4	2					Birdie Bond V. E. Page	2	4
	3	Sylvia Harper Jacques Brugnon	4	7	6			3	Sylvia Harper Jacques Brugnon	6	6
		Floris Conway Rupert Wertheim	6	5	2

Section 2

	First round							Second round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
	1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes	6	6
		Gwen Waterhouse Guy Williams	2	4				1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes	6	6
		Dorothy Bickerton Jim Willard	11	7	6				Dorothy Bickerton Jim Willard	0	0
		Dorothy Dingle Len Thurlow	13	5	3										1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes	7	4	6
																Pattie Meaney Fred Kalms	5	6	3
									Pattie Meaney Fred Kalms	6	6
									Mall Molesworth Jack Cummings	2	4
																						1	Esna Boyd Jack Hawkes	6	8
																						4	Louie Bickerton Christian Boussus	1	6
									Mrs. F. Harper Elliott M. Dunn	6	6
									Mrs. W. T. Rowe [a] Ron Ford	1	0
																Mrs. F. Harper Elliott M. Dunn	3	2
															4	Louie Bickerton Christian Boussus	6	6
								4	Louie Bickerton Christian Boussus	6	8
									Dorothy Weston Frank Peach	3	6

Notes

References

External links

• Source for seedings
• Source for the draw