The America Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1926 International Lawn Tennis Challenge.

Japanese players Tawara and Harada c. 1920

5 teams entered the America Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the Europe Zone.[1] Japan defeated Cuba in the final, and went on to face France in the Inter-Zonal Final.[2]

Draw

Quarterfinals
11–13 June
Semifinals
25–27 June; 16–18 July
Final
19–21 August
Mexico City, Mexico
 Mexico1
San Francisco, CA, United States (grass)
 Japan4
 Japan5
 Philippines0
bye
Montreal, Canada (grass)
 Philippines
 Japan5
 Cuba0
 Cuba
Havana, Cuba (clay)
bye
 Cuba3
 Canada2
bye
 Canada

Quarterfinals

Mexico vs. Japan


Mexico
1
Club Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico[3]
11–13 June 1926
clay

Japan
4
1 2 3 4 5
1 Mexico
Japan
Alfonso Unda
Takeichi Harada
2
6
4
6
4
6
     
2 Mexico
Japan
Manuel Llano
Teizo Toba
1
6
7
5
3
6
4
6
   
3 Mexico
Japan
Claude Butlin / Manuel Llano
Takeichi Harada / Tsumio Tawara
0
6
7
9
4
6
     
4 Mexico
Japan
Claude Butlin
Teizo Toba
6
2
6
3
6
1
     
5 Mexico
Japan
Mariano Lozano Alatorre
Tsumio Tawara
1
6
3
6
4
6
     

Semifinals

Japan vs. Philippines


Japan
5
San Francisco, CA, United States[4]
25–27 June 1926
Grass

Philippines
0
1 2 3 4 5
1 Japan
Philippines
Tsumio Tawara
Guillermo Aragon
8
6
6
1
8
6
     
2 Japan
Philippines
Takeichi Harada
Francisco Aragon
6
0
6
4
6
3
     
3 Japan
Philippines
Takeichi Harada / Tsumio Tawara
Francisco Aragon / Guillermo Aragon
6
3
1
6
5
7
6
2
6
2
 
4 Japan
Philippines
Takeichi Harada
Guillermo Aragon
6
2
6
3
7
5
     
5 Japan
Philippines
Tsumio Tawara
Francisco Aragon
6
2
8
6
4
6
1
6
7
5
 

Cuba vs. Canada


Cuba
3
Havana, Cuba[5]
16–18 July 1926
Clay

Canada
2
1 2 3 4 5
1 Cuba
Canada
Rogelio Paris
Jack Wright
2
6
6
4
2
6
6
3
6
4
 
2 Cuba
Canada
Vicente Banet
Willard Crocker
4
6
4
6
1
6
     
3 Cuba
Canada
Raúl Chacón / Rogelio Paris
Willard Crocker / Jack Wright
8
6
3
6
6
8
8
6
6
2
 
4 Cuba
Canada
Vicente Banet
Jack Wright
4
6
5
7
2
6
     
5 Cuba
Canada
Rogelio Paris
Willard Crocker
6
4
6
2
6
4
     

Final

Japan vs. Cuba


Japan
0
Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada[2]
19–21 August 1926
Grass

Cuba
5
1 2 3 4 5
1 Japan
Cuba
Takeichi Harada
Rogelio Paris
7
5
6
0
6
3
     
2 Japan
Cuba
Tsumio Tawara
Vicente Banet
9
7
6
1
6
2
     
3 Japan
Cuba
Takeichi Harada / Tsumio Tawara
Raúl Chacón / Rogelio Paris
6
4
6
3
6
2
     
4 Japan
Cuba
Tsumio Tawara
Rogelio Paris
6
2
6
0
6
2
     
5 Japan
Cuba
Tezio Toba
Vicente Banet
6
2
6
2
6
2
     

References

  1. Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. pp. 495–506. ISBN 978-0942257700.
  2. 1 2 "Japan v Cuba". daviscup.com.
  3. "Mexico v Japan". daviscup.com.
  4. "Japan v Philippines". daviscup.com.
  5. "Cuba v Canada". daviscup.com.
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