Japan Faces Stiff Test
Z P A. Reuter—Copyright/ TOKYO. The odds are heavily in I Australia’s favour when the] Davis Cup, eastern zone, Sec-i tion A final starts today. Japan has suffered nine! successive post-war defeats | at this stage of the competition, and the Australians’! power and speed is expected] to raise this number to' double figures. Japan’s main hope for a victory appears to be on the first day’s singles when its veteran. K. Watanabe, meets A. Stone, but R. Crealey is picked to overcome the 28-year-old I. Kobayashi in the second singles. The same four players meet in the reverse singles.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32274, 17 April 1970, Page 15
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