DAVIS CUP CHAMPIONS AND RESULTS
1935
Twenty-seven challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; China, Lewis Carson
United States 5, China 0, at Centro Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Bryan Grant (USA) d. Guy Cheng 46 63 62 62; J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Kho Sin Kie 62 61 68 62; Gene Mako - Budge (USA) d. Cheng - Kie 75 62 61; Budge (USA) d. Cheng 64 62 61; Grant (USA) d. Kie 61 64 63.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Mexico, Luis Lopez Llera
United States 4, Mexico 1, at Centro Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Bryan Grant (USA) d. Esteban Reyes 62 63 63; J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Daniel Hernandez 64 63 64; Gene Mako - Budge (USA) d. Alfonso Unda - Jose Llano 60 62 63; Grant (USA) d. Hernandez 61 63 60; Reyes (MEX) d. Mako 16 63 86 46 02 ret.
Captains—U.S., Joseph Wear; Germany, Heinrich Kleinschroth
United States 4, Germany 1, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain
J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Henner Henkel 75 119 68 61; Gottfried von Cramm (GER) d. Wilmer Allison 86 63 64; John van Ryn - Allison (USA) d. Kay Lund - von Cramm 36 63 57 97 86; Allison (USA) d. Henkel 61 75 119; Budge (USA) d. von Cramm 06 97 86 63.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Joseph Wear; Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
Great Britain 5, United States 0, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Henry W. Austin (GBR) d. Wilmer L. Allison 62 26 46 63 75; Frederick J. Perry (GBR) d. J. Donald Budge 60 68 63 64; George P. Hughes - Charles R.D. Tuckey (GBR) d. Allison - John Van Ryn 62 16 68 63 63; Austin (GBR) d. Budge 62 64 68 75; Perry (GBR) d. Allison 46 64 75 63.
1936
Twenty-three challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Wilmer Allison; Mexico, Antonio Mestre
United States 5, Mexico 0, at River Oaks Country Club, Houston, Texas
Donald Budge (USA) d. Esteban Reyes 63 61 61; Bryan Grant (USA) d. Daniel Hernandez 36 62 63 63; John Van Ryn - Wilmer Allison (USA) d. Antonio Mestre - Flavio Martinez 60 61 62; Budge (USA) d. Hernandez 61 61 63; Grant (USA) d. Reyes 64 1311 62.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Australia, Cliff Sproule
Australia 3, United States 2, at Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pa.
Adrian Quist (AUS) d. Wilmer Allison 63 57 64 61; J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Jack Crawford 62 63 46 16 1311; Quist - Crawford (AUS) d. Gene Mako - Budge 46 26 64 75 64; Crawford (AUS) d. Allison 46 63 46 62 62; Budge (USA) d. Quist 62 62 64.
Challenge Round
Captains—Australia, Cliff Sproule; Great Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
Great Britain 3, Australia 2, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Henry W. Austin (GBR) d. John H. Crawford 46 63 61 61; Frederick J. Perry (GBR) d. Adrian K. Quist 61 46 75 62; Crawford - Quist (AUS) d. George P. Hughes - Charles R.D. Tuckey 64 26 75 108; Quist (AUS) d. Austin 64 36 75 63; Perry (GBR) d. Crawford 62 63 63.
1937
Twenty-four challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Edward Chandler; Japan, Jiro Yamagishi
United States 5, Japan 0, at Lakeside Country Club, San Francisco, Calif.
J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Fumiteru Nakano 61 61 60; Frank Parker (USA) d. Jiro Yamagishi 63 26 86 61; Gene Mako - Budge (USA) d. Nakano - Yamagishi 60 61 64; Parker (USA) d. Nakano 60 63 62; Budge (USA) d. Yamagishi 62 62 64.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Australia, Cliff Sproule
United States 5, Australia 0, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.
J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Jack Crawford 61 63 62; Bryan Grant (USA) d. John Bromwich 62 75 61; Gene Mako - Budge (USA) d. Vivian McGrath - Crawford 75 61 86; Budge (USA) d. Bromwich 62 63 57 61; Grant (USA) d. Crawford 60 62 75.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Germany, Heinrich Kleinschroth
United States 3, Germany 2, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Gottfried von Cramm (GER) d. Bryan Grant 63 64 62; J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Henner Henkel 62 61 63; Gene Mako - Budge (USA) d. von Cramm - Henkel 46 75 86 64; Henkel (GER) d. Grant 75 26 63 64; Budge (USA) d. von Cramm 68 57 64 62 86.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Great Britain, Herbert Roper Barrett
United States 4, Great Britain 1, at Wimbledon, London, Great Britain (Grass)
Henry W. Austin (GBR) d. Frank A. Parker 63 62 75; J. Donald Budge (USA) d. Charles E. Hare 1513 61 62; Budge - C. Gene Mako (USA) d. Charles R.D. Tuckey - Frank H.D. Wilde 63 75 79 1210; Parker (USA) d. Hare 62 64 62; Budge (USA) d. Austin 86 36 64 63.
1938
Twenty-three challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Australia, Harry Hopman
United States 3, Australia 2, at Germantown Cricket Cub, Philadelphia, PA (Grass)
Robert L. Riggs (USA) d. Adrian K. Quist 46 60 86 61; J. Donald Budge (USA) d. John E. Bromwich 62 63 46 75; Quist - Bromwich (AUS) d. Budge - C. Gene Mako 06 63 64 62; Budge (USA) d. Quist 86 61 62; Bromwich (AUS) d. Riggs 64 46 60 62.
1939
Twenty-five challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate
Australia, Harry Hopman
Australia 3, United States 2, at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, PA (Grass)
Robert L. Riggs (USA) d. John E. Bromwich 64 60 75; Frank A. Parker (USA) d. Adrian K. Quist 63 64 16 75; Quist - Bromwich (AUS) d. Jack Kramer - Joseph R. Hunt 57 62 75 62; Quist (AUS) d. Riggs 61 64 36 36 64; Bromwich (AUS) d. Parker 60 63 61.
1940-45
Davis Cup competition suspended due to World War II.
1946
Eighteen challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Philippines, Dr. Alfredo Diy
United States 5, Philippines 0, at Triple A Club, St. Louis, Mo.
Frank Parker (USA) d. Felicisimo Ampon 60 60 60; William Talbert (USA) d. Amado Sanchez 61 63 60; Gardnar Mulloy - Talbert (USA) d. Cesar Carmona - Ampon 61 63 61; Parker (USA) d. Sanchez 61 64 60; Ted Schroeder (USA) d. Ampon 62 62 64.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Mexico, Daniel Hernandez
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Orange Lawn Tennis Club, South Orange, N.J.
Frank Parker (USA) d. Rolando Vega 60 60 62; William Talbert (USA) d. Armando Vega 61 62 61; Gardnar Mulloy - Talbert (USA) d. A. Vega - R. Vega 60 97 62; Parker (USA) d. A. Vega 63 63 62; Mulloy (USA) d. Pancho Guerrero 63 64 64.
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Sweden, Curt Oestberg
United States 5, Sweden 0, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y.
Jack Kramer (USA) d. Torsten Johansson 62 62 62; Frank Parker (USA) d. Lennart Bergelin 60 63 61; William Talbert - Gardnar Mulloy (USA) d. Johansson - Bergelin 36 97 36 60 86; Kramer (USA) d. Bergelin 62 62 86; Parker (USA) d. Johansson 97 62 61.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Walter Pate; Australia, Gerald L. Patterson
United States 5, Australia 0, at Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia (Grass)
Frederick R. Schroeder, Jr. (USA) d. John E. Bromwich 36 61 62 06 63; Jack Kramer (USA) d. Dinny Pails 86 62 97; Kramer - Schroeder (USA) d. Bromwich - Adrian K. Quist 62 75 64; Kramer (USA) d. Bromwich 86 64 64; Gardnar Mulloy (USA) d. Pails 63 63 64.
1947
Twenty-one challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Alrick Man; Australia, Roy Cowling
United States 4, Australia 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
Jack Kramer (USA) d. Dinny Pails 62 61 62; Frederick R. Schroeder, Jr. (USA) d. John E. Bromwich 64 57 63 64; Bromwich - Colin Long (AUS) d. Kramer - Schroeder 64 26 62 64; Schroeder (USA) d. Pails 63 86 46 911 108; Kramer (USA) d. Bromwich 63 62 62.
1948
Twenty-eight challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Alrick Man; Australia, Adrian K. Quist
United States 5, Australia 0, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
Frank A. Parker (USA) d. O. William Sidwell 64 64 64; Frederick R. Schroeder, Jr. (USA) d. Adrian K. Quist 63 46 60 60; William F. Talbert - Gardnar Mulloy d. Sidwell - Colin Long 86 97 26 75; Parker (USA) d. Quist 62 62 63; Schroeder (USA) d. Sidwell 62 61 61.
1949
Twenty-six challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Alrick Man; Australia, John Bromwich
United States 4, Australia 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
Frederick R. Schroeder, Jr. (USA) d. O. William Sidwell 61 57 46 62 63; Richard Gonzalez (USA) d. Frank Sedgman 86 64 97; Sidwell - John Bromwich (AUS) d. William F. Talbert - Gardnar Mulloy 36 46 108 97 97; Schroeder (USA) d. Sedgman 64 63 63; Gonzalez (USA) d. Sidwell 61 63 63.
1950
Twenty-five challenging nations entered competition.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Alrick Man; Australia, Harry Hopman
Australia 4, United States 1, at West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Grass)
Frank Sedgman (AUS) d. Thomas P. Brown, Jr. 60 86 97; Kenneth McGregor (AUS) d. Frederick R. Schroeder, Jr. 1311 63 64; Sedgman - John Bromwich (AUS) d. Schroeder - Gardnar Mulloy 46 64 62 46 64; Sedgman (AUS) d. Schroeder 62 62 62; Brown (USA) d. McGregor 911 810 119 61 64.
1951
Twenty-six challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Francis X. Shields; Japan, Ichya Kumagae
United States 5, Japan 0, at Louisville Boat Club, Louisville, Ky.
Dick Savitt (USA) d. Fumiteru Nakano 75 63 62; Herb Flam (USA) d. Jiro Kumamaru 75 60 75; William Talbert - Tony Trabert (USA) d. Nakano - Goro Fujikuru 60 62 108; Savitt (USA) d. Kumamaru 64 62 36 61; Trabert (USA) d. Nakano 64 75 60.
Captains—U.S., Francis X. Shields; Mexico, Rolando Vega
United States 5, Mexico 0, at Westchester Country Club, Rye, N.Y.
Art Larsen (USA) d. Armando Vega 75 63 46 75; Herb Flam (USA) d. Mario Llamas 61 62 64; Vic Seixas - Flam (USA) d. Rolando Vega - A. Vega 64 62 60; Flam (USA) d. R. Vega 63 63 63; Seixas (USA) d. Llamas 63 86 61.
Captains—U.S., Francis X. Shields; Canada, Gordon McNeil
United States 5, Canada 0, at Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada
Tony Trabert (USA) d. Lorne Main 61 62 63; Dick Savitt (USA) d. Brendan Macken 63 61 63; J. Edward Patty - Trabert (USA) d. Henri Rochon - Macken 64 63 62; Art Larsen (USA) d. Rochon 62 61 63; Patty (USA) d. Main 63 63 62.
Captains—U.S., Francis X. Shields; Sweden, Gunnar Galin
United States 5, Sweden 0, at Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia
Ted Schroeder (USA) d. Lennart Bergelin 62 62 64; Tony Trabert (USA) d. Sven Davidson 63 64 97; Schroeder - Trabert (USA) d. Bergelin - Davidson 1012 60 63 62; Schroeder (USA) d. Davidson 62 62 61; Trabert (USA) d. Bergelin 61 108 64.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Francis X. Shields; Australia, Harry Hopman
Australia 3, United States 2, at White City Stadium, Sydney, Australia (Grass)
Vic Seixas (USA) d. Mervyn Rose 63 64 97; Frank Sedgman (AUS) d. Frederick R. Schroeder, Jr. 64 63 46 64; Kenneth McGregor - Sedgman (AUS) d. Schroeder - Tony Trabert 62 97 63; Schroeder (USA) d. Rose 64 1311 75; Sedgman (AUS) d. Seixas 64 62 62.
1952
Twenty-seven challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., William Talbert; Japan, Jiro Kumamaru
United States 5, Japan 0, at Cincinnati Tennis Club, Cincinnati, Ohio
Art Larsen (USA) d. Jiro Kumamaru 62 36 63 62; Vic Seixas (USA) d. Atsushi Miyagi 63 61 60; William Talbert - Gardnar Mulloy (USA) d. Fumiteru Nakano - Kumamaru 62 36 63 62; Seixas (USA) d. Nakano 62 61 62; Larsen (USA) d. Miyagi 61 36 61 57 63.
Captains—U.S., Gardnar Mulloy; Cuba, Eric Williams
United States 5, Cuba 0, at Velado Tennis Club, Havana, Cuba
Hugh Stewart (USA) d. Juan Weiss 75 60 64; Bernard Bartzen (USA) d. Orlando Garrido 60 62 61; Gardnar Mulloy - Stewart (USA) d. Pepe Aguero - Weiss 60 64 62; Stewart (USA) d. O. Garrido 108 63 60; Bartzen (USA) d. Reynaldo Garrido 62 61 60.
Captains—U.S., Vic Seixas; Canada, Dr. George LeClerc
United States 4, Canada 1, at Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada
Herb Flam (USA) d. Henri Rochon 62 86 62; Vic Seixas (USA) d. Lorne Main 62 63 64; Seixas - Flam (USA) d. Brendan Macken - Main 63 36 63 64; Flam (USA) d. Main 62 62 63; Macken (CAN) d. Bob Perry 63 1113 64 64.
Captains—U.S., Vic Seixas; Italy, Pino Bono
United States 5, Italy 0, at White City Courts, Sydney, Australia
Vic Seixas (USA) d. Fausto Gardini 57 36 63 86 63; Tony Trabert (USA) d. Giovanni Cucelli 63 61 63; Seixas - Trabert (USA) d. Marcello del Bello - Cucelli 64 63 62; Ham Richardson (USA) d. Rolando del Bello 75 63 57 63; Trabert (USA) d. Gardini 63 57 75 63.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., Vic Seixas; Australia, Harry Hopman
Australia 4, United States 1, at Memorial Drive Courts, Adelaide, Australia (Grass)
Frank Sedgman (AUS) d. Vic Seixas 63 64 62; Kenneth McGregor (AUS) d. Tony Trabert 119 64 61; McGregor - Sedgman (AUS) d. Seixas - Trabert 63 64 16 63; Sedgman (AUS d. Trabert 75 64 108; Seixas (USA) d. McGregor 63 86 68 63.
1953
Twenty-eight challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Tony Trabert; Japan, Jiro Yamagishi
United States 5, Japan 0, at Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club, Vancouver, Canada
Tony Trabert (USA) d. Kosei Kamo 46 16 61 62 62; Ham Richardson (USA) d. Atsushi Miyagi 60 63 86; Tom Brown - Trabert (USA) d. Kamo - Miyagi 62 62 36 63; Richardson (USA) d. Kamo 06 62 61 62; Brown (USA) d. Massanobu Kimura 62 60 61.
Captains—U.S., Gardnar Mulloy; West Indies, Dr. Gus Desnoes
United States 5, British West Indies 0, at St. Andrew Club, Kingston, Jamaica
Gardnar Mulloy (USA) d. Ian McDonald 61 63 60; Bernard Bartzen (USA) d. Ronald Cooper 61 62 62; Bob Perry - Mulloy (USA) d. Edward Arias - McDonald 62 63 63; Bartzen (USA) d. McDonald 63 61 63; Bob Perry (USA) d. Cooper 62 62 63.
Captains—U.S., Lawrence Baker; Canada, Laird Watt
United States 5, Canada 0, at Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada
Tony Trabert (USA) d. Henri Rochon 62 63 86; Vic Seixas (USA) d. Lorne Main 61 61 64; Seixas - Trabert (USA) d. Paul Willey - Main 36 62 63 62; Straight Clark (USA) d. Willey 75 62 60; Bernard Bartzen (USA) d. Robert Bedard 64 75 16 60.
Captains—U.S., William Talbert; Belgium, Pierre Geelhand
United States 4, Belgium 1, at Milton Courts, Brisbane, Australia
Tony Trabert (USA) d. Philippe Washer 64 62 64; Jacques Brichant (BEL) d. Vic Seixas 63 119 26 61; William Talbert - Trabert (USA) d. Brichant - Washer 63 62 46 97; Trabert (USA) d. Brichant 64 63 61; Seixas (USA) d. Washer 62 75 86.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., William Talbert; Australia, Harry Hopman
Australia 3, United States 2, at Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia (Grass)
Lewis Hoad (AUS) d. Vic Seixas 64 62 63; Tony Trabert (USA) d. Kenneth Rosewall 63 64 64; Seixas - Trabert (USA) d. Rex Hartwig - Hoad 62 64 64; Hoad (AUS) d. Trabert 1311 63 26 36 75; Rosewall (AUS) d. Seixas 62 26 63 64.
1954
Thirty challenging nations entered competition.
Captains—U.S., Ham Richardson; West Indies, Dr. Gus Desnoes
United States 5, British West Indies 0, at Tranquility Square Lawn Tennis Club, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Ham Richardson (USA) d. Geoffrey Ingelfield 62 62 60; Straight Clark (USA) d. Ralph Legall 62 60 63; Hal Burrows - Clark (USA) d. J. Nothnagel - Legall 60 61 63; Richardson (USA) d. Derek Phang 60 60 62; Burrows (USA) d. Inglefield 60 60 63.
Captains—U.S., Ham Richardson; Cuba, Marcos Menandez
United States 5, Cuba 0, at St. Petersburg Tennis Club, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Straight Clark (USA) d. Reynaldo Garrido 60 97 75; Ham Richardson (USA) d. Orlando Garrido 62 63 61; Hal Burrows - Clark (USA) d. O. Garrido - R. Garrido 62 64 63; Burrows (USA) d. O. Garrido 64 64 64; Richardson (USA) d. R. Garrido 61 62 62.
Captains—U.S., William Talbert; Mexico, Raul Fernandez
United States 4, Mexico 1, at Centro Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
Gustavo Palafox (MEX) d. Vic Seixas 64 64 75; Tony Trabert (USA) d. Mario Llamas 64 63 86; Trabert - Seixas (USA) d. Palafox - Llamas 62 36 61 64; Seixas (USA) d. Llamas 64 26 63 62; Trabert (USA) d. Palafox 1412 61 62.
Captains—U.S., William Talbert; Sweden, Gunnar Galin
United States 5, Sweden 0, at Milton Courts, Brisbane, Australia
Tony Trabert (USA) d. Sven Davidson 64 63 64; Vic Seixas (USA) d. Lennart Bergelin 57 62 64 57 62; Seixas - Trabert (USA) d. Bergelin - Davidson 63 64 63; Trabert (USA) d. Bergelin 62 62 36 62; Ham Richardson (USA) d. Davidson 60 63 63.
Challenge Round
Captains—U.S., William Talbert
Australia, Harry Hopman
United States 3, Australia 2, at White City Stadium, Sydney, Australia (Grass)
Tony Trabert (USA) d. Lewis Hoad 64 26 1210 63; Vic Seixas (USA) d. Kenneth Rosewall 86 68 64 63; Seixas - Trabert (USA) d. Hoad - Rosewall 62 46 62 108; Rosewall (A) d. Trabert 97 75 63; Rex Hartwig (A) d. Seixas 46 63 62 63.
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