DAVIS CUP QUEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 13, 15 July 1939, Page 9

DAVIS CUP QUEST

FORM AND STRATEGY

INTER-ZONE FINAL VENUE

LONCr BEACH (Calif,), July 13.

The manager of the Australian team, H. Hopman, in a general discussion on the whole Davis Gup position with the Australian Associated Press, expressed his satisfaction with the manner in which the team is gradually working towards the top ol its form for .the campaign still tp come,

"A small matter of strategy hag occurred regarding the playing of the inter-zone final, which, although scheduled for Boston, could be played elsewhere with the agreement of the European zone winner and ourselves," he continued. "The Canadian tennis authorities are making a strong bid to get the match for Montreal. I am not consenting to this, because we have engaged ourselves to play in the national doubles in Boston before the }nter-zone final, and while we are thus engaged the European team might get in some advantageous practice in Montreal, handicapping us.

"The bait being held out for tiie. Montreal match is excellent, a gate and gallery of 7000 being virtually assured, whereas the inter-zone .final in Boston in 1938 was a frost.

"Nothing that happened at Wimbledon has changed the set-up as I diagnosed it. even before leaving Australia. With the removal of Budge from the scene our chances from evexy point of view are first rate.- It will tak© a lot to convince me we have not the best national tennis team in the world."