LAWN TENNIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS.

TILDEN ON THE JAPS. "Look out for the Japanese.’’ William T. Tilden uttered this Earning recently in discussing the coming Davis Cup ties and the efforts of foreign nations to lift the famous cup. "It is my firm belief that, the Japanese team is the most dangerous one of the field entered in the Davis Cup ties,” Tilden continued. "Idiiya Kumagat and Senso Shimidzu, who will be almost certain to form the backbone of Japan's team, are among the world’s bust tennis players.

"I have met both players, I played Shimidzu twice, and althbugh 1 won from him on both occasions 1 feel that he is constantly becoming a better player. Kumagae is agile, crafty, a deep student of the game, and is a great, all-round player. It will not surprise me to see this pair come through to the round before the challenge round, and I will not be surprised to see them compete against the American team for the Davis Cup.” America's strength to-day, which is unquestionable, may be her weakness to-morrow. The history of the cup proves that it is anybody’s game any time, and the fact that America, in Tilden and Johnston, seems to' have the strongest team in the world for the current series, should not be accepted as a discouraging symptc.ro. Apparently, judging by the fact that the entry this year is twice as large as any previous one, the item of discouragement, because of the skill </ Tilden and Johnston, is entirely negligible.”—-New Tork Times. *