JAPANESE TENNIS TEAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 11

JAPANESE TENNIS TEAM.

| NO VISIT TO DOMINION. ! j SOUTH AFRICAN ARRANGEMENT. | TRY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. There wiil be no visit of a Japanese lawn tennis team to New Zealand this vear. Great hope was held that an arrangement would be made this year, as ■ Australia wanted the team for only a ' f limited time. The proposed team was to include Harada, once ranked as fourth plaver in the world, the Japanese champion, J. Sato, and the young player, Inouye. However, private advice indi- , cat.es that the tairn will not now be making the trip to the Dominion. The factor which has caused the failure of New Zealand's efforts is the unexpected entry of the field by the South African tennis authorities, who have seized the opportunity to dovetail with the Australians' arrangements for the present Japanese team. It, is understood that they offered the Japanese Lawn Tennis Association £BOO tor a visit, and also offered to pay the team's expenses there. This suggestion has met with Japanese approval and will fit in with the team's plans, as it will make its way through South Africa to England in time to play in the Davis Cup matches there next year.