1975 Davis Cup

1975 edition of the Davis Cup 1975 Davis Cup 23 August 1974 – 21 December 1975 64th 53 SWE 1974 1976 The 1975 Davis Cup was the 64th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 55 teams would enter the competition, 32 in the Europe Zone, 12 in the Americas Zone, and 11 in the Eastern Zone. Kenya made its first appearance in the tournament. Chile defeated South Africa in the Americas Inter-Zonal final, Australia defeated New Zealand in the Eastern Zone final, and Sweden and Czechoslovakia were the winners of the two Europe Zones, defeating Spain and France respectively. In the Inter-Zonal Zone, Czechoslovakia defeated Australia and Sweden defeated Chile in the semifinals. Sweden then defeated Czechoslovakia in the final to win their first title and become the sixth nation to win the Davis Cup. The final was held at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden on 19–21 December.Bud Collins The Bud Collins History of Tennis 2010 New Chapter Press [New York] 978-0942257700 495–496, 499 2ndhttp://www.corren.se/asikter/ledare/bjorn-borg-pa-nervigt-uppdrag-7636191.aspx Björn Borg på nervigt uppdrag Östgöta Correspondenten sv Christian Dahlgren 15 January 2009 30 November 2015 Americas Zone 1975 Davis Cup Americas Zone North & Central America Zone Preliminary rounds 4–13 October 1974 31 January–2 February First Round Qualifying Round Nassau, Bahamas (clay) Caribbean/West Indies 0 USA 5 Quebec City, Canada (indoor carpet) CAN 1 MEX 4 Palm Springs, CA, United States (hard) USA 2 MEX 3 Main Draw COL bye RSA 1928 w/o MEX COL RSA 1928 w/o South America Zone Preliminary rounds y 2 15–17 November 197413–15 December 1974 First Round Qualifying Round URU ECU 1900 ARG bye bye BRA 1968 bye BOL Montevideo, Uruguay URU 0 ARG 5 São Paulo, Brazil BRA 1968 4 BOL 0 Main Draw 20–22 December 1974 10–12 January CHI bye São Paulo, Brazil (clay) BRA 1968 3 ARG 2 Santiago, Chile CHI 4 BRA 1968 1 Americas Inter-Zonal Final Chile vs. South Africa Chile South Africa 1928 Santiago, Chilehttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-AMI-M-CHI-RSA-01 Chile v South Africa daviscup.com 18–20 July 1975 5 0 Patricio Cornejo 4 6 6 7 Bernard Mitton 6 4 2 5 Jaime Fillol 6 6 0 3 6 Ray Moore 3 3 6 6 3 Patricio Cornejo Jaime Fillol 7 6 6 Frew McMillan Ray Moore 5 2 4 Jaime Fillol 2 6 3 6 7 Bernard Mitton 6 2 6 1 5 Patricio Cornejo 6 6 4 6 Ray Moore 3 4 6 3 Eastern Zone 1975 Davis Cup Eastern Zone draw Final New Zealand vs. Australia New Zealand Australia Stanley Street, Auckland, New Zealandhttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-EAS-M-NZL-AUS-01 New Zealand v Australia daviscup.com 28 February–2 March 1975 Grass 0 4 Brian Fairlie 5 3 5 John Newcombe 7 6 7 Onny Parun 2 4 2 Ken Rosewall 6 6 6 Brian Fairlie Onny Parun 4 4 5 Geoff Masters John Newcombe 6 6 7 Brian Fairlie 1 11 5 7 Ken Rosewall 6 9 7 9 Onny Parun 6 10 Geoff Masters 3 8 3 Europe Zone 1975 Davis Cup Europe Zone Zone A Pre-qualifying round 1 no Pre-qualifying round23–25 August 1974 Tehran, Iran IRI 1964 5 LIB 0 Tel Aviv, Israel (hard) ISR 5 LUX 0 Preliminary rounds 2 y 20–29 September 1974 2–4 May First Round Qualifying Round ESP 1945 bye Copenhagen, Denmark (indoor carpet) DEN 4 GRE 1970 1 AUT bye London, United Kingdom (indoor carpet) GBR 5 IRI 1964 0 Poznań, Poland (clay) POL 1928 5 POR 0 bye SWE Tel Aviv, Israel (hard) ISR 0 SUI 5 bye FRG Murcia, Spain (clay) ESP 1945 5 DEN 0 Vienna, Austria (clay) AUT 0 GBR 4 Warsaw, Poland (clay) POL 1928 1 SWE 4 Freiburg, West Germany SUI 0 FRG 5 Main Draw 9–18 May 18–20 July 25–27 July ROU 1965 bye Barcelona, Spain (clay) ESP 1945 3 GBR 2 West Berlin (clay) FRG 2 SWE 3 bye URS Barcelona, Spain (clay) ROU 1965 2 ESP 1945 3 Jūrmala, Soviet Union (clay) SWE 3 URS 2 Barcelona, Spain (clay) ESP 1945 2 SWE 3 Final Spain vs. Sweden Spain 1945 Sweden Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, Barcelona, Spainhttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-EUR-A-M-ESP-SWE-01 Spain v Sweden daviscup.com 25–27 July 1975 Clay 2 3 Manuel Orantes 6 6 6 Birger Andersson 1 3 4 José Higueras 3 1 1 Björn Borg 6 6 6 Juan Gisbert Manuel Orantes 6 6 6 Ove Bengtson Björn Borg 4 3 1 Manuel Orantes 4 2 2 Björn Borg 6 6 6 José Higueras 6 4 3 0 Birger Andersson 3 6 6 6 Zone B Pre-qualifying round 1 150 no Pre-qualifying round23 August–14 September 1974 Lagos, Nigeria (hard) NGR 5 KEN 0 Istanbul, Turkey TUR 3 IRL 2 Preliminary rounds 2 y 13–29 September 1974 2–11 May First Round Qualifying Round NED bye Helsinki, Finland FIN 1 HUN 4 EGY 1972 bye Monte Carlo, Monaco MON 4 NGR 1 Brussels, Belgium (indoor hard) BEL 5 NOR 0 bye FRA Sofia, Bulgaria BUL 1971 5 TUR 0 bye YUG Budapest, Hungary NED 0 HUN 5 Monte Carlo, Monaco EGY 1972 3 MON 1 Paris, France (clay) BEL 1 FRA 4 Zagreb, Yugoslavia BUL 1971 1 YUG 4 Main Draw 16–25 May 20–22 June; 18–20 July 25–27 July TCH bye Cairo, Egypt EGY 1972 2 HUN 3 Paris, France (clay) FRA 3 YUG 0 bye ITA Prague, Czechoslovakia (clay) TCH 4 HUN 1 Paris, France (clay) FRA 3 ITA 2 Prague, Czechoslovakia (clay) TCH 3 FRA 2 Final Czechoslovakia vs. France Czechoslovakia France Prague, Czechoslovakiahttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-EUR-B-M-TCH-FRA-01 Czechoslovakia v France daviscup.com 25–27 July 1975 Clay 3 2 Jan Kodeš 6 6 1 6 Patrice Dominguez 1 4 6 0 Jiří Hřebec 6 4 6 2 6 François Jauffret 4 6 3 6 0 Jiří Hřebec Jan Kodeš 3 6 4 6 3 Patrice Dominguez Patrick Proisy 6 3 6 1 6 Jiří Hřebec 6 3 4 4 Patrice Dominguez 4 6 6 6 Jan Kodeš 6 7 6 François Jauffret 1 5 1 Inter-Zonal Zone Draw 19–28 September 19–21 December 4 Prague, Czechoslovakia (clay) EUR-B TCH 3 EAS AUS 1 Båstad, Sweden (clay) AME CHI 1 EUR-A SWE 4 Stockholm, Sweden (indoor carpet) EUR-B TCH 2 EUR-A SWE 3 Semifinals Sweden vs. Chile Sweden Chile Båstad Tennis Stadium, Båstad, Swedenhttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-INZ-M-SWE-CHI-01 Sweden v Chile daviscup.com 19–21 September 1975 Clay 4 1 Björn Borg 3 6 7 6 Patricio Cornejo 6 4 5 3 Birger Andersson 3 2 3 Jaime Fillol 6 6 6 Ove Bengtson Björn Borg 7 6 3 6 Patricio Cornejo Jaime Fillol 5 2 6 3 Birger Andersson 6 14 6 Patricio Cornejo 3 12 1 Björn Borg 6 6 6 Jaime Fillol 1 2 1 Czechoslovakia vs. Australia Czechoslovakia Australia Štvanice Stadium, Prague, Czechoslovakiahttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-INZ-M-TCH-AUS-01 Czechoslovakia v Australia daviscup.com 26–28 September 1975 Clay 3 1 Jan Kodeš 6 2 7 6 John Alexander 4 6 5 4 Jiří Hřebec 3 4 6 6 6 Tony Roche 6 6 1 3 3 František Pála Vladimír Zedník 3 6 2 3 John Alexander Phil Dent 6 3 6 6 Jan Kodeš 6 6 6 Tony Roche 3 1 4 Jiří Hřebec 6 3 6 6 John Alexander 8 6 1 6 4 Final Sweden vs. Czechoslovakia Sweden Czechoslovakia Kungliga tennishallen, Stockholm, Swedenhttps://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-1975-WG-M-SWE-TCH-01 Sweden v Czechoslovakia daviscup.com 19–21 December 1975 Carpet (indoors) 3 2 Björn Borg 6 6 6 Jiří Hřebec 1 3 0 Ove Bengtson 6 2 5 4 Jan Kodeš 4 6 7 6 Ove Bengtson Björn Borg 6 6 6 Jan Kodeš Vladimír Zedník 4 4 4 Björn Borg 6 6 6 Jan Kodeš 4 2 2 Ove Bengtson 6 3 1 4 Jiří Hřebec 2 6 6 6 Controversy 1975 Båstad protests The Inter-Zonal Zone semifinal between Sweden and Chile was played on 19–21 September in Båstad, Sweden, two years after Augusto Pinochet's military coup in Chile. Many people in Sweden wanted the match to be cancelled, in protest of the junta's violations of human rights, however others wanted sport and politics to remain separated. Chilekommittén mobilised protests against the match. The call for the manifestation was issued on July 30, 1975. The slogan of the protests was Stoppa matchen! ('Stop the match'). About 7,000 people took part in the protest. Hundreds of balloons, with names of political prisoners were released in the vicinity of the match venue, guarded by a police force of 1,300. Through Chilean sports commentators on site, news about the protests reached Chile. A special issue of Chilebulletinen was produced for the protests, with 20,000 copies. The then governing Swedish Social Democratic Party didn't take part in the protests on September 20. A protest march was instead organized in Båstad by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League on September 18, ending at the town square, where former prime minister Tage Erlander and Sweden's former ambassador to Chile Harald Edelstam (who personally helped rescue over 1,200 political prisoners in Chile after the 1973 coup) addressed a crowd of some 3,000. Olof Palme's government tried to stop the match, but on September 12 negotiations ended with a decision to play. During the game on September 20, which was guarded by 1,300 police, over 7,000 demonstrators gathered peacefully on the square.Anno 75 (1976), Årskalender utgiven av Förlagshuset Norden AB, Malmö, och Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, pp. 35, 36. The match was played behind closed doors with no spectators present.Hodgkinson Mark Singer calls tune as fans banned from Sweden's Davis Cup clash with Israel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/daviscup/4944005/Singer-calls-tune-as-fans-banned-from-Swedens-Davis-Cup-clash-with-Israel.html telegraph.co.uk The Daily Telegraph 12 October 2019 5 March 2009 See also 1975 Nations Cup References External links Davis Cup Official Website https://web.archive.org/web/20101018182625/http://www.daviscup.com/ 2010-10-18 Davis Cup at SVT's open archive (including the 1975 tournament) sv Category:Davis Cups by year Davis Cup Davis Cup Davis Cup Davis Cup Davis Cup Davis Cup Category:1975 controversies