Lawn Tennis FIRST ROUND OF DAVIS CUP
European Zone Matches
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, April 28.
Italy, the 1956 zone winners, will meet Holland in the second round of the European zone of the Davis Cup.
In first-round matches this week-end Holland qualified to meet Italy by completing a 4-1 victory over Norway at The Hague. Each country won one of today’s remaining two singles. In Barcelona, South Africa eliminated Spain from the European zone when it won two singles today for a 4-0 lead, in a first-round tie. The first two singles, postponed from Friday because of rain, were played yesterday and instead of following the usual custom of deciding the doubles on the second day, the original programme of two singles today was followed and the doubles will be played tomorrow. Today, Trevor Fancutt beat Juan Manuel Couder, 7-5, 6-4, 1-6, 2-6, 6-2, and Abe Segal beat Emilio Martinez, 6-2, 10-12, 0-6, 6-4, 6-3.
In Belgrade, Mexico completed a clean 5-0 sweep against Jugoslavia, winning the two remaining singles today. Mexico will now meet Germany.
In Lugano, Czechoslovakia beat Switzerland 4-1 by winning today’s last two singles. The winners meet France in the next round.
In Bucharest, Austria qualified to meet Sweden when it won the doubles today for a winning 3-0 margin over Rumania. Austria won the first two singles yesterday and two more singles remain to be played tomorrow. In Luxembourg, Poland today took a winning 3-0 lead oyer Luxembourg and will meet Chile in the next round. N.Z. TEAM ARRIVES IN BOURNEMOUTH Play In English Hartl Court Titles (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, April 28. The New Zealand Davis Cup team is now at Bournemouth ready to take part in the English hard-court championships all this week. They are all fit after the flight from Beirut, where they had their first-round cup win against Lebanon and are looking forward to meeting England’s Davis Cup team in the second round at Eastbourne in the middle of May. At Bournemouth the New Zealanders will have a better opportunity to judge the form of their prospective cup opponents, who will be selected from Michael Davies, William Knight, Robert Wilson, J. E. Barrett, J. K. Pickard, and Roger Becker, all of whom will appear. England’s team will be picked as a result of performances in the tournament. Davies was outplayed by J. Drobny, the 1954 Wimbledon champion, in the final of the Connaught club’s lawn tennis tournament at Chingford, Essex, yesterday. He lost 6-4, 6-3. HOAD BEATEN AT • NAPLES Withdrawal Through Arm Soreness (N.Z. Press Association Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) NAPLES, April 28. Lewis Hoad, Australia’s Wimbledon champion, is trying to get a booking to London for urgent specialist treatment to an aching right arm. Hoad withdrew from the men’s doubles semi-final in the Naples! international tournament today after his defeat at the hands of his doubles partner, the Chilean, Luis Ayala, yesterday, in the singles semi-final. Ayala won 8-6, 6-3. The bulky Italian, Orlando Sirola, eventually triumphed as the singles winner at Naples when the finals were played today. Sirola beat Ayala in a five-set struggle—4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. Thelma Long, of Australia, beat Mrs Mocla Migliori (Italy), 6-3. 6-2, in the singles semi-finals, and partnering Ayala won her mixed doubles match against Silvana Lazzarino and Umberto Bervamo (Italy), 6-3, 6-3. The junior men’s singles was an all-Australian affair. Neil Gibson beating Warren Woodcock in the final, 6-4, 6-0.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 14
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