TENNIS IN INDIA
JAPANESE DEFEATED AT LAST
• CALCUTTA, 24th January. . G. P. Hughes, the British Davis Cup player, and A. M. Pitt, India's Davis Cup representative, ivon the Bengal doubles championship, defeating Ueda and Kitagawa, 6-i, 6-0, 6-3, thus ending, the period of Japanese domination in. Bengal tennis since the days of Shimizu. . ;
Shimizu is recognised as the real pioneer of Japanese tennis. He won the j Bengal tournament on four occasions— in. 1913, 1916, 1918, and 1020. He also captained t.'ie Japanese Davis Cup team in 1926, 1.027, and'l929.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19310126.2.151
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 18
Word Count
90TENNIS IN INDIA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 18
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.