Word: okamoto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final of the American Zone Davis Cup play. Gerald L. Patterson won first for Australia by tantalizing Zenzo Shimizu with neat chops, then opening up his driving play and net smashes. Pat O'Hara Wood went five lively sets but finally pinned down slippery, stinging Sunao Okamoto. Wood and Patterson wore out Okamoto and Takeichi Harada in three tense sets of doubles. In two superfluous singles matches, Wood put by Shimizu, Patterson toyed with Okamoto...
...Australia, who have also entered in the American Zone. The team: Zenzo Shimizu, captain of the 1923 team, for many years a mainstay of Japanese tennis-he who very nearly overcame the remarkable Tilden in 1921. Masanosuke Fukuda, also of the 1923 team and known in this country. Sanao Okamoto. He is graduate of the University of Commerce (Tokyo) and for more than five years has been in India as representative of Mitsui & Co. There he has won the Bengal championship three times, the West Indian championship once. Among his victims was Louis Dean of the India Davis Cup team...