1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The first edition of the International Lawn Tennis Challenge, today's Davis Cup 1900 took place. The competition was initiated by Dwight Filley Davis and fellow students from Harvard University. Davis funded by $ 750 from their own resources a silver cup with 13 inches height and 18 inches in diameter, and wrote in February 1900 from the first International Lawn Tennis Challenge, which was adopted from the British Isles. The two teams played in August 1900 in a proposed mode of Davis against each other: on the first and third day two single games should be played on the second day was to be a double encounter. The winner was the team that won at least three games for themselves. The U.S. could thereby argue against the respected as the world's best tennis nation British, and decide the contest itself.

Participant

Teams of the following two countries participated in the first edition of the tournament:

• United States 45 United States

Result

Due to rain the last two ( and already meaningless ) Single games were canceled or did not take place.

Team Holcombe Ward Malcolm Whitman Dwight Filley Davis

Captain Dwight Filley Davis

Date: 8 bis August 10, 1900 Location: Boston (USA) Surface: grass

Result: 3-0

Team Ernest Black Arthur Gore Herbert Roper Barrett

Captain Arthur Gore