Minister for Sport Frank Waring stepped on to the court to present the prizes and was loudly booed for several minutes by the large crowd.

The game went with ser vice until the seventh game of the first set, when Miss Goolagong dropped her

serve.

From then on Mrs Court gained in power and autho rity, dictating virtually every rally. Miss Goolagong was failing all too frequently with her overheads and volleys and her first service was not as consistent as that of her more experi enced opponent.

After dropping her serve again in the fourth game of the second set to trail 3-1, Miss Goolagong rallied to

stave off defeat.

But some excellent cross court backhands did not make up for the earlier mis takes and Mrs Court was too well entrenched tobe shaken.

Slowing the pace, Mrs Court served for the match at 5-1. Miss Goolagong got to (he big serve better than

at any time earlier in the game and had a break point at 30-40. But she came out at the losing end of some long rallies and Mrs Court survived two break-points to slam home a power-driven forehand on her second match point.

Australians Ken Rosewall

and Fred Stollc beat South Africa's Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan to win the men's doubles final of the championships.