DAVIS CUP CHAMPIONS AND RESULTS
1924
Twenty-two challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams, II; Australasia, Gerald L. Patterson
United States 5, Australasia 0, at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa. (Grass)
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Gerald L. Patterson 64 62 62; Vincent Richards (USA) d. Pat O’Hara Wood 63 62 64; Tilden - William M. Johnston (USA) d. Patterson - O’Hara Wood 57 63 64 61; Tilden (USA) d. O’Hara Wood 62 61 61; Richards (USA) d. Patterson 63 75 64.
1925
Twenty-two challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams, II; France, Max Decugis
United States 5, France 0, at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa. (Grass)
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Jean Borotra 46 60 26 97 64; William M. Johnston (USA) d. Jean Rene Lacoste 61 61 68 63; Vincent Richards - R. Norris Williams, II (USA) d. Lacoste - Borotra 64 64 63; Tilden (USA) d. Lacoste 36 1012 86 75 62; Johnston (USA) d. Borotra 61 64 60.
1926
Twenty-three challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams, II; France, Pierre Gillou
United States 4, France 1, at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa. (Grass)
William M. Johnston (USA) d. Jean Rene Lacoste 60 64 06 60; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Jean Borotra 62 63 63; R. Norris Williams, II - Vincent Richards (USA) d. Henri Cochet - Jacques Brugnon 64 64 62; Johnston (USA) d. Borotra 86 64 97; Lacoste (FRA) d. Tilden 46 64 86 86.
1927
Twenty-three challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Charles Garland; France, Pierre Gillou
France 3, United States 2, at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa. (Grass)
Jean Rene Lacoste (FRA) d. William M. Johnston 63 62 62; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Henri Cochet 64 26 62 86; Tilden - Francis T. Hunter (USA) d. Jean Borotra - Jacques Brugnon 36 63 63 46 60; Lacoste (FRA) d. Tilden 63 46 63 62; Cochet (FRA) d. Johnston 64 46 62 64.
1928
Twenty-three challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., William T. Tilden II; Mexico, Robert Kinsey
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Centro Deportivo, Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
John Hennessey (USA) d. Ricardo Tapia 62 97 61; William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Robert Kinsey 61 62 64; Arnold Jones - Tilden (USA) d. Alfonso Unda - Kinsey 62 46 63 63; Hennessey (USA) d. Kinsey 62 60 63; Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Unda 46 63 86 75.
Captains—U.S., William T. Tilden II; China, Gordon Lum
United States 5, China 0, at Rockhill Tennis Club, Kansas City, Mo.
George Lott (USA) d. Paul Kong 60 60 60; John Hennessey (USA) d. Gordon Lum 63 64 60; William T. Tilden II - Wilbur Coen (USA) d. Kong - Lum 62 61 63; Lott (USA) d. Lum 63 62 60; Hennessey (USA) d. Kong 61 60 61.
Captains—U.S., William T. Tilden II; Japan, Teizo Toba
United States 5, Japan 0, at Town and Tennis Club, Chicago, Ill.
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Tamio Abe 62 63 60; John Hennessey (USA) d. Yoshiro Ohta 86 63 63; George Lott - Tilden (USA) d. Teizo Toba - Abe 61 108 62; Tilden (USA) d. Ohta 46 63 61 60; Wilbur Coen (USA) d. Abe 79 62 64 75.
Captains—U.S., Joseph Wear; Italy, Umberto de Morpurgo
United States 4, Italy 1, at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Frank Hunter (USA) d. Placido Gaslini 61 61 60; John Hennessey (USA) d. Umberto de Morpurgo 64 75 62; George Lott - Hennessey (USA) d. Gaslini - de Morpurgo 62 63 61; de Morpurgo (ITA) d. Hunter 64 68 63 36 63; Hennessey (USA) d. Gaslini 75 63 64.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Joseph Wear; France, Pierre Gillou
France 4, United States 1, at Stade Roland Garros, Auteuil, Paris, France (Clay)
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Jean Rene Lacoste 16 64 64 26 63; Henri Cochet (FRA) d. John F. Hennessey 57 97 63 60; Cochet - Jean Borotra (FRA) d. Tilden - Francis T. Hunter 64 68 75 46 62; Cochet (FRA) d. Tilden 97 86 64; Lacoste (FRA) d. Hennessey 46 61 75 63.
1929
Twenty-eight challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Canada, Dr. H. Ross Cleveland
United States 5, Canada 0, at Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada
John Van Ryn (USA) d. Willard Crocker 97 62 63; John Hennessey (USA) d. Jack Wright 63 46 61 75; Van Ryn - Hennessey (USA) d. Arthur Ham - Wright 61 61 16 62; Van Ryn (USA) d. Wright 61 60 61; Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Crocker 26 64 97 46 62.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Japan, Yoshiro Ohta
United States 4, Japan 1, at Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md.
John Van Ryn (USA) d. Tamio Abe 62 46 63 62; John Hennessey (USA) d. Yoshiro Ohta 62 62 63; Van Ryn - Hennessey (USA) d. Abe - Ohta 63 64 62; Ohta (JPN) d. Van Ryn 64 57 26 64 75; Hennessey (USA) d. Abe 63 61 36 61.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Cuba, Ricardo Morales
United States 5, Cuba 0, at Detroit Tennis Club, Detroit, Mich.
John Hennessey (USA) d. Ricardo Morales 60 63 64; John Van Ryn (USA) d. Gustavo Vollmer 60 61 61; Wilmer Allison - Van Ryn (USA) d. German Upmann - Morales 62 60 61; Allison (USA) d. Vollmer 63 62 75; George Lott (USA) d. Upmann 64 63 63.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Germany, Conrad Weiss
United States 5, Germany 0, at Rot Weiss Club, Berlin, Germany
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Hans Moldenhauer 62 64 64; Frank Hunter (USA) d. Daniel Prenn 36 63 64 63; Wilmer Allison - John Van Ryn (USA) d. Moldenhauer - Prenn 911 62 64 63; Tilden (USA) d. Prenn 61 64 61; Hunter (USA) d. Moldenhauer 63 16 64 46 61.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; France, Pierre Gillou
France 3, United States 2, at Stade Roland Garros, Auteuil, Paris (Clay)
Henri Cochet (FRA) d. William T. Tilden II 63 61 62; Jean Borotra (FRA) d. George M. Lott, Jr. 61 36 64 75; John Van Ryn - Wilmer L. Allison (USA) d. Cochet - Borotra 61 86 64; Tilden (USA) d. Borotra 46 61 64 75; Cochet (FRA) d. Lott 61 36 60 63.
1930
Twenty-seven challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Canada, Jack Wright
United States 5, Canada 0, at Philadelphia Country Club, Philadelphia, Pa.
John Van Ryn (USA) d. Jack Wright 62 62 36 62; George Lott (USA) d. Marcel Rainville 62 62 86; Wilmer Allison - Van Ryn (USA) d. Willard Crocker - Wright 60 64 62; John Doeg (USA) d. Wright 62 63 62; Allison (USA) d. Rainville 62 62 75.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Mexico, Manuel Llano
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md.
Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Ricardo Tapia 63 36 68 62 75; George Lott (USA) d. Ignacio de la Borbolla 60 60 60; John Van Ryn - Allison (USA) d. Alfonso Unda - Manuel Llano 60 61 63; John Doeg (USA) d. Frederic Sendel 61 60 62; Van Ryn (USA) d. Tapia 62 63 61.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Italy, Umberto de Morpurgo
United States 4, Italy 1, at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Georgio de Stefani 46 79 64 86 108; George Lott (USA) d. Umberto de Morpurgo 36 97 108 63; John Van Ryn - Allison (USA) d. Placido Gaslini - de Morpurgo 57 62 64 16 63; Lott (USA) d. de Stefani 63 61 63; de Morpurgo (ITA) d. Allison 75 62 57 64.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; France, Pierre Gillou
France 4, United States 1, at Stade Roland Garros, Auteuil, Paris, France (Clay)
William T. Tilden II (USA) d. Jean Borotra 26 75 64 75; Henri Cochet (FRA) d. George M. Lott, Jr. 64 62 62; Cochet - Jacques Brugnon (FRA) d. Wilmer L. Allison - John Van Ryn 63 75 16 62; Borotra (FRA) d. Lott 57 63 26 62 86; Cochet (FRA) d. Tilden 46 63 61 75.
1931
Twenty-nine challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Sam Hardy; Mexico, Manuel Llano
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Centro Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Alfonso Unda 63 61 63; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Ricardo Tapia 64 64 62; Sidney Wood - Shields (USA) d. Manuel Llano - Tapia 63 63 64; Shields (USA) d. Jorge Acosta 63 60 63; Allison (USA) d. Tapia 64 63 62.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Canada, Alan Dunlop
United States 4, Canada 1, at Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada
Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Jack Wright 86 62 62; Marcel Rainville (CAN) d. Sidney Wood 46 64 63 26 64; Shields - Wood (USA) d. Wright - Rainville 86 64 62; Wood (USA) d. Wright 86 63 64; Shields (USA) d. Rainville 61 64 61.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Argentina, Edwin French
United States 5, Argentina 0, at Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md.
Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Guillermo Robson 36 62 62 62; Sidney Wood (USA) d. Ronaldo Boyd 64 61 62; Shields - Wood (USA) d. Adriano Zappa - Lucillo Del Castillo 64 86 26 62; Shields (USA) d. Boyd 62 62 62; Clifford Sutter (USA) d. Robson 36 64 63 63.
Captains—U.S., Sam Hardy; Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
Great Britain 3, United States 2, at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Henry Austin (GBR) d. Sidney Wood 26 60 86 75; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Frederick J. Perry 108 64 62; John Van Ryn - George Lott (USA) d. George Hughes - Perry 61 63 46 63; Perry (GBR) d. Wood 63 810 63 63; Austin (GBR) d. Shields 86 63 75.
Challenge Round
Captains—Great Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
France, Jean Rene Lacoste
France 3, Great Britain 2, at Stade Roland Garros, Auteuil, Paris, France (Clay)
Henri Cochet (FRA) d. Henry W. Austin 36 119 62 64; Frederick J. Perry (GBR) d. Jean Borotra 46 108 60 46 64; Cochet - Jacques Brugnon (FRA) d. George P. Hughes - Charles H. Kingsley 61 57 63 86; Austin (GBR) d. Borotra 75 63 36 75; Cochet (FRA) d. Perry 64 16 97 63.
1932
Twenty-eight challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Canada, Garnet Meldrum
United States 5, Canada 0, at Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md.
Ellsworth Vines (USA) d. Jack Wright 86 36 64 46 62; Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Marcel Rainville 62 64 62; John Van Ryn - Allison (USA) d. Wright - Rainville 62 61 62; Vines (USA) d. Rainville 63 63 64; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Wright 86 61 810 61.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Mexico, Ernesto Lopez
United States 5, Mexico 0, at New Orleans Country Club, New Orleans, La.
Ellsworth Vines (USA) d. Alfonso Unda 61 62 64; Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Ricardo Tapia 62 63 64; John Van Ryn - Allison (USA) d. Unda - Tapia 61 62 36 97; Vines (USA) d. Tapia 64 57 1012 86 63; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Eduardo Mestre 60 61 60.
Captains—U.S., Fitz-Eugene Dixon; Australia, Jack Clemenger
United States 5, Australia 0, at Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ellsworth Vines (USA) d. Jack Crawford 62 64 26 64; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Harry Hopman 64 61 62; John Van Ryn - Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Crawford - Hopman 60 64 57 75; Shields (USA) d. Crawford 64 75 46 36 62; Vines (USA) d. Hopman 62 911 64 64.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Brazil, Ignacio Noguiera
United States 5, Brazil 0, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.
Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Nelson Cruz 63 62 63; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Ricardo Pernambuco 61 63 06 64; John Van Ryn - Allison (USA) d. Ivo Simoni - Pernambuco 61 61 62; Van Ryn (USA) d. Simoni 62 60 60; Allison (USA) d. Pernambuco 61 62 60.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Germany, Friedrich Rahe
United States 3, Germany 2, at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Gottfried von Cramm (GER) d. Francis X. Shields 75 57 64 86; Ellsworth Vines (USA) d. Daniel Prenn 63 63 06 64; John Van Ryn - Wilmer Allison (USA) d. von Cramm - Prenn 63 64 61; Vines (USA) d. von Cramm 36 63 97 63; Prenn (GER) d. Shields 61 60 68 62.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; France, Jean Rene Lacoste
France 3, United States 2, at Stade Roland Garros, Auteuil, Paris, France (Clay)
Jean Borotra (FRA) d. H. Ellsworth Vines, Jr. 64 62 36 64; Henri Cochet (FRA) d. Wilmer L. Allison 57 75 75 62; Allison - John Van Ryn (USA) d. Cochet - Jacques Brugnon 63 1113 75 46 64; Borotra (FRA) d. Allison 16 36 64 62 75; Vines (USA) d. Cochet 46 06 75 86 62.
1933
Twenty-nine challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Wilmer Allison; Mexico, Ernesto Lopez
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Centro Deportivo, Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Ricardo Tapia 46 63 64 64; Clifford Sutter (USA) d. Esteban Reyes 61 60 61; John Van Ryn - George Lott (USA) d. Eduardo Mestre - Alfonso Unda 60 61 75; Sutter (USA) d. Tapia 61 36 75 26 61; Allison (USA) d. Mestre 60 97 61.
Captains—U.S., Wilmer Allison; Canada, Garnet Meldrum
United States 5, Canada 0, at Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada
Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Jack Wright 62 75 62; Ellsworth Vines (USA) d. Gilbert Nunns 63 61 63; John Van Ryn - George Lott (USA) d. Marcel Rainville - Wright 61 63 63; Allison (USA) d. Nunns 64 86 64; Vines (USA) d. Wright 75 63 75.
Captains—U.S., Wilmer Allison; Argentina, Adriano Zappa
United States 4, Argentina 0, at Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md.
Ellsworth Vines (USA) d. Adriano Zappa 62 63 64; Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Hector Cattaruzza 62 64 63; John Van Ryn - George Lott (USA) d. Adelmar Echerverria - Zappa 61 64 61; Vines (USA) d. Cattaruzza 75 61 57 61; Allison (USA) led Zappa 62 61 22, unfinished.
Captains—U.S., Bernon Prentice; Great Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
Great Britain 4, United States 1, at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Henry Austin (GBR) d. Ellsworth Vines 61 61 64; Frederick J. Perry (GBR) d. Wilmer Allison 61 75 64; John Van Ryn - George Lott (USA) d. Patrick Hughes - Perry 86 64 61; Austin (GBR) d. Allison 62 79 63 64; Perry (GBR) d. Vines 16 60 46 75 76 ret.
Challenge Round
Captains—Great Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett; France, Jean Rene Lacoste
Great Britain 3, France 2, at Stade Roland Garros, Auteuil, Paris, France (Clay)
Henry W. Austin (GBR) d. Andre Merlin 63 64 60; Frederick J. Perry (GBR) d. Henri Cochet 810 64 86 36 61; Jean Borotra - Jacques Brugnon (FRA) d. George P. Hughes - Harold G.N. Lee 63 86 62; Cochet (FRA) d. Austin 57 64 46 64 64; Perry (GBR) d. Merlin 46 86 62 75.
1934
Twenty-six challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams; Canada, Gilbert Nunns
United States 5, Canada 0, at Wilmington Country Club, Wilmington, Del.
Lester Stoefen (USA) d. Marcel Rainville 61 75 61; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Walter Martin 62 63 97; John Van Ryn - George Lott (USA) d. Martin - Rainville 60 64 60; Stoefen (USA) d. Gilbert Nunns 64 62 63; Shields (USA) d. Laird Watt 61 63 64.
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams; Mexico, Ricardo Tapia
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Md.
Sidney Wood (USA) d. Esteban Reyes 63 62 62; Lester Stoefen (USA) d. Ricardo Tapia 62 63 61; George M. Lott - Stoefen (USA) d. Eduardo Mestre - Tapia 64 64 64; Francis X. Shields (USA) d. Angel Roldan 62 61 62; Wood (USA) d. Tapia 64 97 69.
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams; Australia, Stanley Youdale
United States 3, Australia 2, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain
Jack Crawford (AUS) d. Francis X. Shields 61 62 1210; Vivian McGrath (AUS) d. Sidney Wood 75 64 16 97; George Lott - Lester Stoefen (USA) d. Adrian Quist - Crawford 64 64 26 64; Wood (USA) d. Crawford 63 97 46 46 62; Shields (USA) d. McGrath 64 62 64.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., R. Norris Williams; Great Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
Great Britain 4, United States 1, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Henry W. Austin (GBR) d. Francis X. Shields 64 64 61; Frederick J. Perry (GBR) d. Sidney B. Wood 61 46 57 60 63; George M. Lott, Jr. - Lester R. Stoefen (USA) d. George P. Hughes - Harold G.N. Lee 75 60 46 97; Perry (GBR) d. Shields 64 46 62 1513; Austin (GBR) d. Wood 64 60 68 63.
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