DAVIS CUP CHAMPIONS AND RESULTS
U.S. DAVIS CUP MATCHES AND CHALLENGE/FINAL ROUND RESULTS
1900
Challenge Round (Great Britain was only the challenger).
Captains—U.S., Dwight F. Davis; Great Britain, Arthur W. Gore
United States 3, Great Britain 0, at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, MA (Grass)—Dwight F. Davis (USA) d. E.D. Black 46 62 64 64; Malcolm D. Whitman (USA) d. Arthur W. Gore 61 63 62; Holcombe Ward - Davis (USA) d. Black - H. Roper Barrett 64 64 64; Whitman (USA) vs. Black unplayed; Davis (USA) led Gore 97 99 unfinished.
1901
No match
1902
Challenge Round (Great Britain was only the challenger).
Captains—U.S., Malcolm D. Whitman; Great Britain, William H. Collins
United States 3, Great Britain 2, at Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Grass)
Reginald F. Doherty (GBR) d. William A. Larned 26 36 63 64 64; Malcolm D. Whitman (USA) d. Joshua Pim 61 61 16 60; Larned (USA) d. Pim 63 62 63; Whitman (USA) d. R. Doherty 61 75 64; R. Doherty - H. Laurie Doherty (GBR) d. Holcombe Ward - Davis 36 108 63 64.
1903
Challenge Round (Great Britain was the only challenger).
Captains—U.S., William A. Larned; Great Britain, William H. Collins
Great Britain 4, United States 1, at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, Mass. (Grass)
H. Laurie Doherty (GBR) d. Robert D. Wrenn 60 63 64; William A. Larned (USA) d. Reginald F. Doherty def.; R. Doherty - H. Doherty (GBR) d. R. Wrenn - George L. Wrenn 75 97 26 63; H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. Larned 63 68 60 26 75; R. Doherty (GBR) d. R. Wrenn 64 36 63 68 64.
1904
Two challenging nations entered competition; United States did not enter competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—Belgium, Paul de Borman; Great Britain, William H. Collins
Great Britain 5, Belgium 0, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
H. Laurie Doherty (GBR) d. Paul de Borman 64 61 61; Frank L. Riseley (GBR) d. Willy Lemaire 61 64 62; Reginald Doherty - H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. de Borman - Lemaire 60 61 63; H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. Lemaire def.; Riseley (GBR) d. de Borman 46 62 86 75.
1905
Four challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Paul Dashiell; France, Max Decugis
United States 5, France 0, at Queen’s Club, London, Great Britain
Holcombe Ward (USA) d. Maurice Germot 62 62 61; William J. Clothier (USA) d. Max Decugis 63 64 64; Beals C. Wright - Ward (USA) d. Germot - Decugis 62 62 62; Ward (USA) d. Decugis 62 62 61; Clothier (USA) d. Germot 63 57 61 63.
Captains—U.S., Paul Dashiell; Australasia, Alfred Dunlop
United States 5, Australasia 0, at Queen’s Club, London, Great Britain
Beals C. Wright (USA) d. Norman E. Brookes 1210 57 1210 64; William A. Larned (USA) d. Anthony F. Wilding 63 62 64; Holcombe Ward - Wright (USA) d. Alfred Dunlop - Brookes 86 75 57 62; Wright (USA) d. Wilding 63 63 (best-of-three sets by agreement); Larned (USA) d. Brookes 1412 60 63.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Paul Dashiell; Great Britain, William H. Collins
Great Britain 5, United States 0, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
H. Laurie Doherty (GBR) d. Holcombe Ward 79 46 61 62 60; Sidney H. Smith (GBR) d. William A. Larned 64 64 57 64; Reginald F. Doherty - H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. Ward - Beals C. Wright 810 62 62 46 86; Smith (GBR) d. William J. Clothier 46 61 64 63; H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. Larned 64 26 68 64 62.
1906
Two challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Beals C. Wright; Australasia, Anthony F. Wilding
United States 3, Australasia 2, at Newport, Wales, Great Britain
Holcombe Ward (USA) d. Les Poidevin 62 64 75; Anthony F. Wilding (A) d. Raymond D. Little 62 86 61; Ward - Little (USA) d. Poidevin - Wilding 75 62 64; Wilding (A) d. Ward 63 36 06 64 86; Little (USA) d. Poidevin 62 16 75 62.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Beals C. Wright; Great Britain, William H. Collins
Great Britain 5, United States 0, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Sidney H. Smith (GBR) d. Raymond D. Little 64 64 61; H. Laurie Doherty (GBR) d. Holcombe Ward 62 86 63; Reginald F. Doherty - H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. Ward - Little 36 119 97 61; Smith (GBR) d. Ward 61 60 64; H.L. Doherty (GBR) d. Little 36 63 68 61 63.
1907
Two challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Beals C. Wright; Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
Australasia 3, United States 2, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain
Norman E. Brookes (A) d. Beals C. Wright 64 64 62; Anthony F. Wilding (A) d. Karl Behr 16 63 36 75 63; Wright - Behr (USA) d. Brookes - Wilding 36 1210 46 62 63; Brookes d. Behr 46 64 61 62; Wright (USA) d. Wilding 68 63 63 75.
Challenge Round
Captains—Australasia, Norman E. Brookes; Great Britain, S.A.E. Hickson
Australasia 3, Great Britain 2, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Norman E. Brookes (A) d. Arthur W. Gore 75 61 75; Anthony F. Wilding (A) d. H. Roper Barrett 16 64 63 75; Gore - Barrett (GBR) d. Brookes - Wilding 36 46 75 62 1311; Brookes (A) d. Barrett 62 60 63; Gore (GBR) d. Wilding 36 63 75 62.
1908
Two challenging nations entered competition.
Captain—U.S., Beals C. Wright
United States 4, Great Britain 1, at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, Mass.
William A. Larned (USA) d. Major Ritchie 46 63 62 63; Beals C. Wright (USA) d. James Parke 810 36 64 63 62; Fred B. Alexander - Harold Hackett (USA) d. Ritchie - Parke 63 26 75 61; Larned (USA) d. Parke 63 63 75; Ritchie (GBR) d. Wright 61 63 62.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Beals C. Wright
Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
Australasia 3, United States 2, at Warehousemen’s Grounds, Melbourne, Australia (Grass)
Norman E. Brookes (A) d. Fred B.Alexander 57 97 62 46 63; Beals C. Wright (USA) d. Anthony F. Wilding 36 75 63 61; Brookes - Wilding (A) d. Wright - Alexander 64 62 57 16 64; Wright (USA) d. Brookes 06 36 75 62 1210; Wilding (A) d. Alexander 63 64 61.
1909
Two challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., William A. Larned; Great Britain, James Parke
United States 5, Great Britain 0, at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa.
William A. Larned (USA) d. Charles Dixon 63 62 60; William J. Clothier (USA) d. James Parke 64 63 86; Raymond D. Little-Harold Hackett (USA) d. William Crawley - Parke 36 64 64 46 86; Larned (USA) d. Parke 63 62 63; Clothier (USA) d. Dixon 63 61 64.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Maurice E. McLoughlin; Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
Australasia 5, United States 0, at Double Bay Grounds, Sydney, Australia (Grass)
Norman E. Brookes (A) d. Maurice E. McLoughlin 62 62 64; Anthony F. Wilding (A) d. Melville H. Long 62 75 61; Brookes - Wilding (A) d. McLoughlin - Long 1210 97 63; Brookes (A) d. Long 64 75 86; Wilding (A) d. McLoughlin 36 86 62 63.
1910
No competition held.
1911
Two challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., William A. Larned; Great Britain, Charles Dixon
United States 4, Great Britain 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.
William A. Larned (USA) d. Charles Dixon 63 26 63 36 75; Maurice E. McLoughlin (USA) d. Arthur Lowe 75 61 46 63; Alfred Beamish - Dixon (GBR) d. Thomas C. Bundy - Raymond D. Little 63 75 64; Larned (USA) d. Lowe 63 16 75 61; McLoughlin (USA) d. Dixon 86 36 63 63.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., William A. Larned; Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
Australasia 5, United States 0, at Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand (Grass)
Norman E. Brookes (A) d. Beals C. Wright 64 26 63 63; Rodney W. Heath (A) d. William A. Larned 26 61 75 62; Brookes - Alfred W. Dunlop (A) d. Wright - Maurice F. McLoughlin 64 57 75 64; Brookes (A) d. McLoughlin 64 36 46 63 64; Heath (A) d. Wright def.
1912
Two challenging nations entered competition; United States did not enter competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—Great Britain, Charles P. Dixon
Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
Great Britain 3, Australasia 2, at Warehousemen’s Grounds, Melbourne, Australia (Grass)
J. Cecil Parke (GBR) d. Norman E. Brookes 86 63 57 62; Charles P. Dixon (GBR) d. Rodney W. Heath 57 64 64 64; Brookes - Alfred W. Dunlop (A) d. Parke - Alfred E. Beamish 64 61 75; Parke (GBR) d. Heath 62 64 64; Brookes (A) d. Dixon 62 64 64.
1913
Seven challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Harold Hackett; Australasia, Stanley Doust
United States 4, Australasia 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.
Maurice E. McLoughlin (USA) d. Horace Rice 61 63 63; Richard Williams (USA) d. Stanley Doust 64 64 16 75; Alfred Jones - Doust (A) d. Harold Hackett - McLoughlin 26 62 57 62 97; McLoughlin (USA) d. Doust 64 64 62; Williams (USA) d. Rice 16 46 97 61 62.
Captains—U.S., Harold Hackett; Germany, Otto Froitzheim
United States 5, Germany 0, at The Park, Nottingham, Great Britain
Richard Williams (USA) d. Oscar Kreuzer 75 64 46 61; Maurice E. McLoughlin (USA) d. Otto Froitzheim 57 26 64 62 62; Harold Hackett - McLoughlin (USA) d. Friedrich Rahe - Heinrich Kleinschroth 64 26 63 86; Williams (USA) d. Froitzheim 57 61 63 61; Wallace Johnson (USA) d. Kreuzer 75 64 57 64.
Captains—U.S., Harold Hackett; Canada, R.B. Powell
United States 3, Canada 0, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain
Richard Williams (USA) d. B.P. Schwengers 64 62 64; Maurice E. McLoughlin (USA) d. R.B. Powell 108 61 64; Harold Hackett - McLoughlin (USA) d. Powell - Schwengers 63 63 1210.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Harold H. Hackett; Great Britain, Roger J. McNair
United States 3, Great Britain 2, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
J. Cecil Parke (GBR) d. Maurice E. McLoughlin 810 75 64 16 75; R. Norris Williams, II (USA) d. Charles P. Dixon 86 36 62 16 75; Harold H. Hackett - McLoughlin (USA) d. H. Roper Barrett - Dixon 57 61 26 75 64; McLoughlin (USA) d. Dixon 86 63 62; Parke (GBR) d. Williams 62 57 57 64 62.
1914
Six challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—Australasia, Norman E. Brookes; U.S., Maurice E. McLoughlin
Australasia 3, United States 2, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
Anthony F. Wilding (A) d. R. Norris Williams, II 75 62 63; Maurice E. McLoughlin (USA) d. Norman E. Brookes 1715 63 63; Brookes - Wilding (A) d. McLoughlin - Thomas C. Bundy 63 86 97; Brooks (A) d. Williams 61 62 810 63; McLoughlin (USA) d. Wilding 62 63 26 62.
1915-18
Davis Cup competition suspended due to World War I.
1919
Four challenging nations entered competition; United States did not enter competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—Great Britain, Algernon R.F. Kingscote; Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
Australasia 4, Great Britain 1, at Double Bay Grounds, Sydney, Australia (Grass)
Gerald L. Patterson (A) d. Arthur H. Lowe 64 63 26 63; Algernon R.F. Kingscote (GBR) d. James O. Anderson 75 62 64; Norman E. Brookes - Patterson (A) d. Kingscote - Alfred E. Beamish 60 60 62; Patterson (A) d. Kingscote 64 64 86; Anderson (A) d. Lowe 64 57 63 46 1210.
1920
Five challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Sam Hardy; France, Max Decugis
United States 3, France 0, at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, Great Britain
William M. Johnston (USA) d. Andre Gobert 63 86 63; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. William Laurentz 46 62 61 63; Tilden - Johnston (USA) d. Gobert - Laurentz 62 63 62.
Captains—U.S., Sam Hardy; Britain, Roger McNair
United States 5, Great Britain 0, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain
William M. Johnston (USA) d. James Parke 64 64 26 36 62; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Algernon Kingscote 46 61 63 61; Tilden - Johnston (USA) d. Parke - Kingscote 86 46 46 63 62; Johnston (USA) d. Kingscote 64 46 36 64 75; Tilden (USA) d. Parke 62 63 75.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Sam Hardy; Australasia, Norman E. Brookes
United States 5, Australasia 0, at Domain Cricket Ground, Auckland, New Zealand (Grass)
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Norman E. Brookes 108 64 16 64; William M. Johnston (USA) d. Gerald L. Patterson 63 61 61; Tilden - Johnston (USA) d. Brookes - Patterson 46 64 60 64; Tilden (USA) d. Patterson 57 62 63 63; Johnston (USA) d. Brookes 57 75 63 63.
1921
Eleven challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams, II; Japan, Ichiya Kumagae
United States 5, Japan 0, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, NY (Grass)
William M. Johnston (USA) d. Ichiya Kumagae 62 64 62; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Zenzo Shimizu 57 46 75 62 61; R. Norris Williams, II - Watson M. Washburn (USA) d. Shimizu - Kumagae 62 75 46 75; Tilden (USA) d. Kumagae 97 64 61; Johnston (USA) d. Shimizu 63 57 62 64.
1922
Ten challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams, II; Australasia, James O. Anderson
United States 4, Australasia 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Gerald L. Patterson 75 108 60; William M. Johnston (USA) d. James O. Anderson 61 62 63; Patterson - Pat O’Hara Wood (A) d. Tilden - Vincent Richards 63 60 64; Johnston (USA) d. Patterson 62 62 61; Tilden (USA) d. Anderson 64 57 36 64 62.
1923
Sixteen challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams, II; Australasia, Gerald L. Patterson
United States 4, Australasia 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
James O. Anderson (A) d. William M. Johnston 46 62 26 75 62; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. John B. Hawkes 64 62 61; Tilden - R. Norris Williams, II (USA) d. Anderson - Hawkes 1715 1113 26 63 62; Johnston (USA) d. Hawkes 60 62 61; Tilden (USA) d. Anderson 62 63 16 75.
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