Austin Favours Australia For Davis Cup
“Bunny” Austin, the former British tennis champion, who is at the moment attempting to educate the Americans in the ways of moral rearmament, has expressed the opinion that there is nothing to prevent the Australian team from winning the Davis Cup. Austin does not think it necessary to go into details as to why he thinks Australia will win the Davis Cup. He simply says there is no other team capable of defeating the Australians, says The Referee, Sydney. It is true the British team played magnificent tennis against New Zealand, though their 19-year-old record was at one time in danger of being destroyed, for it looked as if New Zealand was going to win. If New Zealand, on the closing day of the game, had won one of the singles matches they would have been the’ first country to defeat Britain in the opening Davis Cup match of the year since 1920.
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 15
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