1939 International Lawn Tennis Challenge America Zone
The America Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1939 International Lawn Tennis Challenge.
7 teams entered the America Zone: 6 teams entered the North & Central America Zone, while 1 team entered the South America Zone. The winner of each sub-zone would play against each other to determine who moved to the Inter-Zonal Final to compete against the winner of the Europe Zone.[1]
Australia defeated Cuba in the North & Central America Zone final, and then received a walkover in the Americas Inter-Zonal final after Brazil, the only team in the South America Zone, withdrew.[2][3] Australia went on to face Yugoslavia in the Inter-Zonal Final.
North & Central America Zone
[edit]Draw
[edit]| Quarterfinals 30 June–23 July | Semifinals 14–16 July | Final 10–12 August | |||||||||||
 Philippines | |||||||||||||
| Long Beach, CA, United States (grass) | |||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||
| Philippines | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Mexico City, Mexico (clay) | |||||||||||||
 Australia | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Australia | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Rumson, NJ, United States (grass) | |||||||||||||
 Mexico | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Australia | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Havana, Cuba (clay) | |||||||||||||
 Cuba | 0 | ||||||||||||
 Canada | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Cuba | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Cuba | w/o | ||||||||||||
 Japan[a] | |||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||
 Japan | |||||||||||||
Quarterfinals
[edit]Mexico vs. Australia
[edit] Mexico 0 |
Club Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico[5] 30 June–2 July 1939 Clay |
 Australia 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cuba vs. Canada
[edit] Cuba 4 |
Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba[6] 21–23 July 1939 Clay |
 Canada 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Semifinals
[edit]Australia vs. Philippines
[edit]Australia 5 |
Long Beach Tennis Club, Long Beach, CA, United States[7] 14–16 July 1939 Grass |
 Philippines 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Final
[edit]Cuba vs. Australia
[edit]Cuba 0 |
Seabright Lawn Tennis Club, Rumson, NJ, United States[2] 10–12 August 1939 Grass |
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Americas Inter-Zonal Final
[edit]Australia defeated Brazil by walkover.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Japan withdrew from the competition after their top player, Jiro Yamagishi, joined the Imperial Japanese Navy.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. pp. 495–506. ISBN 978-0942257700.
- ^ a b "Cuba v Australia". daviscup.com.
- ^ a b "Australia v Brazil". daviscup.com.
- ^ "The Bulletin - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ "Mexico v Australia". daviscup.com.
- ^ "Cuba v Canada". daviscup.com.
- ^ "Australia v Philippines". daviscup.com.