LAWN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 9

LAWN TENNIS

JAPANESE TEAM

AUSTRALIAN PLANS

Now that definite arrangements have been completed for the tour of Australia by a team of Japanese lawn tennis players, the Australian Lawn Tennis' Association will prepare plans for the visitors to play international matches against the leading Australian players in the capital cities, and will decide the dates for the Australian championship meeting so that the Japanese will1 be able^to compete, says the "Daily Telegraph.",.. . The national titles will be played for in Adelaide, and the meeting will' begin about the end of January. The Japanese players will arrive in Brisbane towards the middle of December. They will disembark there, and play their first match in that, city. They will then play in Sydney, go on to Melbourne, # and probably complete the tour in Adelaide. The three, players chosen by the Japanese L.T.A.—Harada, Jiro Satoh, and Inouye—should be of great interest to Australia, and are expected to become very popular with the galleries. H. Hopman speaks highly of the sportsmanship and personality;:of Harada .and Satoh," whom he met and played; against in France last year. . Takeichi Harada, captain of the 1930 Japanese Davis Cup team, and Davis Cup player since 1924, is regarded as the greatest player Japan has produced, outshining his great predecessors,- Kumagae and Shimidzu. He has victories to his credit over Bill Johnston, of-U.S.A., and Cochet and Lacoste, o£ France. He, is 31 years of age. - . Jiio Satoh was Japan's first singles player for tho Davis Cup this year, and was seeded among the first' eight players for' Wimbledon.' He'is a young and, keen player. At Wimbledon he beat G. Lyttelton Rogers, thel Irish champipn, in four sets, and also H. 6. N. Lee, the British player, in straight sets. He was beaten in the quarter finals by Borotra in four,sets. Inouye is practically unknown in. international lawn tennis,1 although he played in the mid-Pacific championships at Honolulu last year. In the cable confirming the arrangements for the Japanese visit, the Japanese L.T.A. state that he is ranked No. 2 in the1: latest Japanese ranking list. He is regarded as the most, promising of the young players in his country.