Davis Cup 1936

The 1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge Cup is the 1936 International Men's Lawn Tennis Challenge Team known as the Davis Cup , which took place from late April to late July 1936 . The current holder of the Davis Cup, the UK team , in the Round of Challenge met with the winner of the Interzonal Final, whose participants had previously decided on the results of the qualifying games held in the European and American zones.

In the final of the American Zone, Adrian Quist and Jack Crawford played two match points in the game against the newly formed pair of Gene Mako - Don Budge and finished it with a victory, giving the rivals only 7 points in the final five games. Crawford, defeating in the decisive single-player game of the American veteran Wilmer Ellison , brought the Australian team in the interzonal final. There, the Australians were opposed by the German team that won the European zone. On the first day, German Henner Henkel , who is ill with the flu, passed the game to Crawford, losing 6: 2, 6: 2. Then Gottfried von Kramm and Kvist played a five-set match, in which von Kramm played three matchballs on his pitch with a score of 7: 8, 0-40 in the fifth set. The German himself needed 10 matchballs to complete the meeting with a victory. Quist, who extended his ankle during this game, was out of action before the end of the match, but Vivian McGrath , who entered the court instead, won the match against Crowford, and then the single player game against Henkel, bringing the Australian team to the Call Round for the first time in 12 years ^{[1 ]} .

In the Wimbledon Court Call Round, the current Davis Cup winners took the lead 2-0 after the first day, and the second number of the British Bunny Austin for the first time in his career won a crucial meeting against Crawford. The Australians managed to recoup in the doubles and the first single player of the decisive day, in which Quist inflicted an unexpected defeat on Austin. However, in a decisive match, Fred Perry defeated Crawford, bringing his team the fourth title in a row, winning his 18th victory in 19 games of the International Challenge Cup in 4 years and the ninth in ten meetings of the Challenge Round. This game was the last in his appearances for the UK national team: at the end of the season, Perry went on a professional tennis tour, losing the right to play in the Davis Amateur Cup ^[2] .