DAVIS CUP TENNIS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 33, 2 November 1933, Page 13

DAVIS CUP TENNIS

Australia’s Prospects

VIEWS OP VISITORS Dominion Special Service. Hastings, November 1. The-two Australian tennis players, Adrian Quist and Don Turnbull, who appeared in Hastings yesterday, are quietly confident of winning the Davis Cup at the next attempt. They are by no means “cock-sure,” but they are satisfied that* Australia’s chances are at least equal to. those of any other nation. Explaining that matches in the Davis Cup rounds consisted of four singles and one doubles, Turnbull said at Hastings.: “We hope and expect that Crawford will retain his form and be able to win two singles matches against any nation." He expressed the opinion also that, on present form, Australia's best doubles pair should come from Crawford, Hopman, Quist and hhnself—and it required not a little persuasion to give his view on the matter of Australia's strength in doubles play. Hopman, he added, although not a member of last year’s Australian Davis Cup team, was definitely the Commonwealth’s No, 2 ranking player. Quist had other reasons to advance to explain Australia’s good prospects. It was expected, he said, that the Commonwealth’s strength in singles play all round should be improved by the visit of the English trio—F, J, Ferry, F. D. Wilde and H. G. N. Lee—who are at present in New Zealand and who leave shortly to spend the major part of the coming season in Australia. The four Australians who had had the opportunity of visiting England, the Continent and America this year, he said, had all benefited from the experience which they bad gained, and matches during the coming season against the English players should give further improvement to the singles form of all the Commanwealth’s leading players.