DAVIS CUP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 7

DAVIS CUP

PROSPECTS OF AUSTRALIAN TEAM. CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED BY MANAGER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONG BEACH (California). July 13. The manager of the Australian team. H. Hopman, in a general discussion on the whole Davis Cup position with the Australian Associated Press, expressed his satisfaction with the manner in which the team is gradually working toward the top of its form lor the campaign still to come. “Bromwich’s progress is extremely satisfactory. He is developing excel lently and promises to be ready for the hardest sort of campaign when the real firing begins," he said. "Quist’s form has satisfied me, but apparently it does not yet satisfy Adrian himself. “A small matter of strategy has 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 inter-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 the 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 every point of view are first-rate. It will take a lot to convince me we haven't the best national tennis team in the world.”