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1948 Davis Cup

1948 edition of the Davis Cup

Top 10 1948 Davis Cup related articles
1 Pakistan Davis Cup team
The Pakistan Davis Cup team represent Pakistan in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Pakistan Tennis Federation.More
2 Turkey Davis Cup team
The Turkey Davis Cup team represents Turkey in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Türkiye Tenis Federasyonu.More
3 Australia Davis Cup team
The Australian Davis Cup team is the second most successful team ever to compete in the Davis Cup, winning the coveted title on 28 separate occasions, second behind the United States with 32.More
4 Mexico Davis Cup team
The Mexico Davis Cup team represents Mexico in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federación Mexicana de Tenis.More
5 Czech Republic Davis Cup team
The Czech Republic Davis Cup team represents the Czech Republic in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Czech Tennis Federation. The Czech team was started in 1993, following the break-up of Czechoslovakia.More
6 Sweden Davis Cup team
The Sweden Davis Cup team represents Sweden in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Swedish Tennis Association.More
7 United States Davis Cup team
The United States of America's Davis Cup Team represents the United States in Davis Cup tennis competition, and is governed by the United States Tennis Association.More
8 West Side Tennis Club
The West Side Tennis Club is a private tennis club located in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The Club has 38 tennis courts in all four surfaces, a junior Olympic-size swimming pool and other amenities. It is the home of the Forest Hills Stadium, a 14,000 seat outdoor tennis stadium and concert venue.More
9 Forest Hills, Queens
Forest Hills is a mostly residential neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is adjacent to Corona to the north, Rego Park and Glendale to the west, Forest Park to the south, Kew Gardens to the southeast, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park to the east.More
10 New York (state)
New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It was one of the original thirteen colonies that formed the United States. With a total area of 54,555 square miles and a population of more than 19 million residents as of 2019, New York is the 27th largest U.S state as well as the fourth-most-populous. To distinguish it from New York City, the largest city in the state, it is sometimes referred to as New York State.More
1948 Davis Cup
Details
Duration22 April – 6 September
Edition37th
Teams29
Champion
Winning Nation  United States
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The 1948 Davis Cup was the 37th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 25 teams entered the Europe Zone, and four teams entered the America Zone. Pakistan and Turkey made their first appearances in the competition.

Australia defeated Mexico in the America Zone final, and Czechoslovakia defeated Sweden in the Europe Zone final. Australia defeated Czechoslovakia in the Inter-Zonal play-off, but fell to defending champions the United States in the Challenge Round. The championship was played at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York, United States on 4–6 September.[1][2][3]

1948 Davis Cup Intro articles: 1
1 United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States, or America, is a country primarily located in North America, consisting of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area. With a population of over 328 million, it is the third most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.More

America Zone

Further information: 1948 Davis Cup America Zone

Draw

  Semifinals
8–25 July 		Final
6–8 August
                 
  Havana, Cuba
     Australia 5  
     Cuba 0     Mexico City, Mexico (clay)
       Australia 4
  Montreal, Canada (grass)      Mexico 1
     Canada 1
     Mexico 4  

Final

Mexico vs. Australia


Mexico
1 		Centro Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico [4]
6–8 August 1948
Clay
Australia
4
1 2 3 4 5
1
Armando Vega
Bill Sidwell 		6
2 		6
8 		6
3 		4
6 		5
7 		 
2
Gustavo Palafox
Adrian Quist 		4
6 		1
6 		4
6 		     
3
Gustavo Palafox / Armando Vega
Geoff Brown / Colin Long 		0
6 		2
6 		2
6 		     
4
Armando Vega
Adrian Quist 		9
7 		6
4 		6
2 		     
5
Francisco Guerrero Arcocha
Bill Sidwell 		1
6 		4
6 		2
6 		     

1948 Davis Cup America Zone articles: 9
1 Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico and the most-populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the world. It is located in the Valley of Mexico, a large valley in the high plateaus in the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 meters (7,350 ft). The city has 16 subdivisions, formerly known as boroughs.More
2 Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers 1,972,550 square kilometers (761,610 sq mi) and has approximately 128,649,565 inhabitants, making it the world's 13th-largest country by area, 10th-most-populous country, and most populous Spanish-speaking nation. It is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, its capital city and largest metropolis. Other major urban areas include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, and León.More
3 Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.More
4 Bill Sidwell
Oswald William Thomas Sidwell is an Australian former tennis player.More
5 Gustavo Palafox
Gustavo Palafox is a retired tennis player from Mexico.More
6 Adrian Quist
Adrian Karl Quist was an Australian tennis player.More
7 Geoff Brown (tennis)
Geoffrey Edmund Brown is a former Australian male tennis player, born in Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia. He attended Parramatta Marist High School in 1938-9 before joining the R.A.A.F as a gunner. He was demobilised at the end of the war and returned to playing tennis.More
8 Colin Long (tennis)
Colin Long was an Australian tennis player. He had a notable mixed doubles partnership with fellow Australian Nancye Wynne Bolton. Together they won four Mixed Doubles at the Australian Championships, which is an all-time record. In singles, he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian four times and the fourth round of both Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals in 1947. He was a major commentator for Channel 7 for both golf and tennis until the late 1980s.More
9 Francisco Guerrero-Arcocha
Francisco Guerrero-Arcocha was a Mexican tennis player.More

Europe Zone

Further information: 1948 Davis Cup Europe Zone

Draw

First Round
22 April–5 May
   Second Round
6–18 May
   Quarterfinals
10–14 June
   Semifinals
9–11 July
   Final
27–29 July
   Netherlands    
 bye        Netherlands 5  
   Portugal      Portugal 0    
 bye          Netherlands 1  
   Norway    
Oslo, Norway (clay)
      Great Britain 4  
 bye        Norway 1
   Great Britain 3      Great Britain 4    
   India 2          Great Britain 1  
   Hungary 5    
Paris, France (clay)
      Sweden 4  
   Austria 0        Hungary 4  
   Romania 2      France 1    
   France 3          Hungary 2
   Spain 0          Sweden 3  
   Sweden 4        Sweden 5
    Switzerland 3       Switzerland 0    
   Pakistan 2          Sweden 1
   Ireland 5    
Dublin, Ireland (grass)
      Czechoslovakia 4
   Luxembourg 0        Ireland 2  
   Denmark 3      Denmark 3    
Turin, Italy (clay)
   Egypt 2          Denmark 0  
   Turkey 0          Italy 5  
   Yugoslavia 5        Yugoslavia 2
   Italy w/o      Italy 3    
Milan, Italy (clay)
   Poland          Italy 2
 bye          Czechoslovakia 3  
   Czechoslovakia        Czechoslovakia 4  
 bye      Brazil 1    
   Brazil          Czechoslovakia 3
 bye          Belgium 2  
   Belgium        Belgium 3
 bye      Argentina 2  
   Argentina  

Final

Czechoslovakia vs. Sweden


Czechoslovakia
4 		Prague, Czechoslovakia [5]
27–29 July 1948
Clay
Sweden
1
1 2 3 4 5
1
Vladimír Černík
Torsten Johansson 		6
4 		4
6 		6
3 		6
3 		   
2
Jaroslav Drobný
Lennart Bergelin 		6
0 		6
3 		7
5 		     
3
Vladimír Černík / Jaroslav Drobný
Lennart Bergelin / Torsten Johansson 		6
2 		6
1 		6
2 		     
4
Vladimír Zábrodský
Torsten Johansson 		3
6 		6
3 		2
6 		3
6 		   
5
Ferdinand Vrba
Börje Fornstedt 		6
3 		6
1 		6
3 		     

1948 Davis Cup Europe Zone articles: 8
1 Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team
The Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team competed from 1921–1992, winning the tournament once, in 1980. From 1993, the nations competed as:
  • Czech Republic Davis Cup team
  • Slovakia Davis Cup team
More
2 Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 13th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.7 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.More
3 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.More
4 Sweden
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund Strait. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. The capital city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.4 million of which 2.6 million have a foreign background. Persons with foreign backgrounds are defined as persons who are foreign born, or born in Sweden with foreign born parents. It has a low population density of 25 inhabitants per square kilometre (65/sq mi), with 1 437 persons per km2 in localities. 87% of Swedes live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area. The highest concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.More
5 Torsten Johansson
Torsten Johansson was a Swedish tennis player who was active during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.More
6 Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný was a World No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1954, he became the first and, to date, only player with African citizenship to win the Wimbledon Championships.More
7 Lennart Bergelin
Sven Lennart Bergelin was a Swedish tennis player and coach. As a player, for AIK, Bergelin won nine Swedish championship singles titles between 1945 and 1955, and the French Open doubles title in 1948. Bergelin is best known for his work with Björn Borg, whom he trained between 1971 and 1983, helping him to win 11 Grand Slam tournaments. Bergelin also captained Sweden to its first Davis Cup title.More
8 Vladimír Zábrodský
Vladimír Olegovic Zábrodský was a Czechoslovak ice hockey and tennis player. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he won a silver medal with the Czechoslovakian national team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, and won the world championships. Zábrodský was also a tennis player and member of the Czechoslovakian Davis Cup team.More

Inter-Zonal Final

Australia vs. Czechoslovakia


Australia
3 		Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, MA, United States [6]
19–22 August 1948
Grass
Czechoslovakia
2
1 2 3 4 5
1
Adrian Quist
Vladimír Černík 		6
2 		13
11 		6
0 		     
2
Bill Sidwell
Jaroslav Drobný 		6
3 		6
2 		9
11 		14
12 		   
3
Geoff Brown / Colin Long
Vladimír Černík / Jaroslav Drobný 		8
10 		6
4 		3
6 		4
6 		   
4
Adrian Quist
Jaroslav Drobný 		8
6 		6
3 		16
18 		3
6 		5
7 		 
5
Bill Sidwell
Vladimír Černík 		7
5 		6
4 		6
2 		     

1948 Davis Cup Inter-Zonal Final articles: 2
Longwood Cricket Club
Longwood Cricket Club is a tennis and former cricket club based in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. It is the site of the first Davis Cup competition.More
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States and the 21st most populous city in the United States. The city proper covers 48.4 square miles (125 km2) with an estimated population of 692,600 in 2019, also making it the most populous city in New England. It is the seat of Suffolk County. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. As a combined statistical area (CSA), this wider commuting region is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.More

Challenge Round

United States vs. Australia


United States
5 		West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, NY, United States [3]
4–6 September 1948
Grass
Australia
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Frank Parker
Bill Sidwell 		6
4 		6
4 		6
4 		     
2
Ted Schroeder
Adrian Quist 		6
3 		4
6 		6
0 		6
0 		   
3
Gardnar Mulloy / Bill Talbert
Colin Long / Bill Sidwell 		8
6 		9
7 		2
6 		7
5 		   
4
Ted Schroeder
Bill Sidwell 		6
2 		6
1 		6
1 		     
5
Frank Parker
Adrian Quist 		6
2 		6
2 		6
3 		     

1948 Davis Cup Challenge Round articles: 4
1 Frank Parker
Frank Andrew Parker, was a world No. 1 American male tennis player of Polish immigrant parents who was active in the 1930s and 1940s. He won four Grand Slam singles titles as well as three doubles titles. He was coached by Mercer Beasley.More
2 Ted Schroeder
Frederick Rudolph "Ted" Schroeder was an American tennis player who won the two most prestigious amateur tennis titles, Wimbledon and the U.S. National. He was the No. 1-ranked American player in 1942; the No. 2 for 4 consecutive years, 1946 through 1949, and the latter year saw Schroeder ranked World No. 1 by Pierre Gillou. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, but developed as a tennis player in Southern California under the guidance of Perry T. Jones.More
3 Gardnar Mulloy
Gardnar Putnam "Gar" Mulloy was a U.S. No. 1 tennis player primarily known for playing in doubles matches with partner Billy Talbert. He was born in Washington, D.C. and turned 100 in November 2013. During his career he won five Grand Slam doubles tournaments and was a member of the winning Davis Cup team on three occasions.More
4 Bill Talbert
William Franklin Talbert was an American tennis player and administrator.More

References

  1. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. pp. 495–496, 499. ISBN 978-0942257700.
  2. ^ Max Robertson (1974). The Encyclopedia of Tennis. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 384. ISBN 0047960426.
  3. ^ a b "United States v Australia". daviscup.com.
  4. ^ "Mexico v Australia". daviscup.com.
  5. ^ "Czechoslovakia v Sweden". daviscup.com.
  6. ^ "Australia v Czechoslovakia". daviscup.com.

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