This tournament was formerly known as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge. The 1969 Davis Cup Tennis Tournament was the 58th edition of this tournament.
The finals of this tournament were held at the Harold Clark Courts which is located in Cleveland in the United States. It was for the first time that the finals of this tournament were held in the hard courts.
1969 Davis Cup Statistics
1969 Davis Cup Tennis Tournament had the 51 participating nations which was more than the number of participants that took part in the previous year. Out of these teams, 34 teams participated from the Europe Zone and 9 teams participated from the America Zone. There were around 8 national teams that participated from the Eastern Zone.
In the America Zone, Mexico qualified from the North America zone after defeating Australia. Brazil defeated Chile in the South America Zone.
In the America's Inter zone final, Brazil defeated Mexico by a score line of 4-1.
In the Eastern Zone Japan got a walk over from South Vietnam in the Zone A.
In the Zone B, India defeated Ceylon by a score line of 4-1. In the Eastern Inter zonal finals, India defeated Japan very easily by a score line of 5-0. In the Europe zone, Romania defeated Soviet Union by a score line of 4-1 in the Zone A.
In the Zone B, Great Britain defeated South Africa and won the finals with a narrow margin of 3-2 and qualified to the Inter Zone round.
In the Inter Zone final, Great Britain competed against Romania. Romania defeated Great Britain by a score line of 3-2. Qualifying to the Challenge round, Romania got easily defeated by United States. The score line was 0-5.
1969 Davis Cup Summary
In the 1969 Davis Cup Tennis Tournament United States secured its title successfully. However in this year the performance of champion nations was not up to the mark.
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