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1926 International Lawn Tennis Challenge America Zone

Main article: 1926 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

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

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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

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Mexico vs. Japan

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Mexico
1 		Club Deportivo Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico[3]
11–13 June 1926
clay 		 
Japan
4
1 2 3 4 5
1  
  		Alfonso Unda
Takeichi Harada 		2
6 		4
6 		4
6 		     
2  
  		Manuel Llano
Teizo Toba 		1
6 		7
5 		3
6 		4
6 		   
3  
  		Claude Butlin / Manuel Llano
Takeichi Harada / Tsumio Tawara 		0
6 		7
9 		4
6 		     
4  
  		Claude Butlin
Teizo Toba 		6
2 		6
3 		6
1 		     
5  
  		Mariano Lozano Alatorre
Tsumio Tawara 		1
6 		3
6 		4
6 		     

Semifinals

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Japan vs. Philippines

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Japan
5 		San Francisco, CA, United States[4]
25–27 June 1926
Grass 		 
Philippines
0
1 2 3 4 5
1  
  		Tsumio Tawara
Guillermo Aragon 		8
6 		6
1 		8
6 		     
2  
  		Takeichi Harada
Francisco Aragon 		6
0 		6
4 		6
3 		     
3  
  		Takeichi Harada / Tsumio Tawara
Francisco Aragon / Guillermo Aragon 		6
3 		1
6 		5
7 		6
2 		6
2 		 
4  
  		Takeichi Harada
Guillermo Aragon 		6
2 		6
3 		7
5 		     
5  
  		Tsumio Tawara
Francisco Aragon 		6
2 		8
6 		4
6 		1
6 		7
5 		 

Cuba vs. Canada

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Cuba
3 		Havana, Cuba[5]
16–18 July 1926
Clay 		 
Canada
2
1 2 3 4 5
1  
  		Rogelio Paris
Jack Wright 		2
6 		6
4 		2
6 		6
3 		6
4 		 
2  
  		Vicente Banet
Willard Crocker 		4
6 		4
6 		1
6 		     
3  
  		Raúl Chacón / Rogelio Paris
Willard Crocker / Jack Wright 		8
6 		3
6 		6
8 		8
6 		6
2 		 
4  
  		Vicente Banet
Jack Wright 		4
6 		5
7 		2
6 		     
5  
  		Rogelio Paris
Willard Crocker 		6
4 		6
2 		6
4 		     

Final

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Japan vs. Cuba

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Japan
0 		Mount Royal Tennis Club, Montreal, Canada[2]
19–21 August 1926
Grass 		 
Cuba
5
1 2 3 4 5
1  
  		Takeichi Harada
Rogelio Paris 		7
5 		6
0 		6
3 		     
2  
  		Tsumio Tawara
Vicente Banet 		9
7 		6
1 		6
2 		     
3  
  		Takeichi Harada / Tsumio Tawara
Raúl Chacón / Rogelio Paris 		6
4 		6
3 		6
2 		     
4  
  		Tsumio Tawara
Rogelio Paris 		6
2 		6
0 		6
2 		     
5  
  		Tezio Toba
Vicente Banet 		6
2 		6
2 		6
2 		     

References

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  1. ^ Bud Collins (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. pp. 495–506. ISBN 978-0942257700.
  2. ^ a b "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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