Sangster May Be In Cup Team

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31032, 12 April 1966, Page 16

Sangster May Be In Cup Team

(N.Z.PA. Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, April 11. Britain’s tennis selectors meet next Tuesday to pick the team to play New Zealand in their first round European zone tie of the Davis Cup.

The tie begins in London on April 28. The team can be only provisional until the selectors are certain that the No. 1 singles player, M. Sangster is fit. This

cannot be established until Sangster has played his first competitive matches for six months, in the Connaught club tournament starting today at Chingford, Essex. It was last October that Sangster scratched during his semi-final of the British covered courts championship with a recurrance of circulatory trouble in his right arm. He has since undergone extensive specialist treatment which has seemingly cured the trouble but has left him desperately short of practice at the start of a busy season. No Chances No chances will be taken with Sangster. But if he passes his early tests, he is certain to be named along with R. Wilson and R. Taylor. The fourth member of the side could be G. Stilwell, winner of the Cumberland club tournamept men’s singles titles on Saturday. Stilwell showed his best form only in the final set against S. Matthews, but the saturated court did not help anyone and he could get a Davis Cup call. M. Cox, who did so well for Britain in the King’s Cup matches last winter, has been busy with examinations at university and, like Sangster, plays his first competitive tennis of the year at Ching, ford.

The selectors will also take a look at W. Knight in the Surrey championships at Sutton this week, and may try to persuade him to change his mind about playing international tennis again.