CHRISTCHURCH, APRIL 2: New Zealand and South Korea were tied 1-1 following the opening singles matches in their second-round Asia-Oceania Davis Cup tie today.New Zealand No 1 Brett Steven beat Song Hyeong-Keun 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 while Lee Hyung-Taik beat Mark Nielson 7-5, 6-0, 6-4.Uzbeks level termsAIZUWAKAMATSU, JAPAN: Japan and Uzbekistan were tied 1-1 after the opening singles matches in their second round of the Asia-Oceania tie.Japan's Takao Suzuki defeated Vadim Kutsenko 6-3, 6-4, 7-5, while Oleg Ogorodov of Uzbekistan struggled to a full-set victory of 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 3-0 (retired) over Goichi Motomura.Motomura retired midway through the final set after developing muscle pain in one leg.100 years onLONDON: He won a medal for bravery in World War One, was Governor-general of the Philippines and became American Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge but Dwight Davis is best remembered for founding the Davis Cup.Tennis celebrates the centenary of the world's largest annual sporting competition in 1999 and by the luck of the draw, Birmingham will stage a repeat of the first match in Davis Cup history - Britain vs the United States.Davis, a left-hander in the John McEnroe mould and son of the wealthiest man in Missouri, paid for the huge Silver Cup after persuading US tennis officials to propose to the British they play for an International Challenge Cup.The US won that debut match, the first in a record 31 titles, and Britain have not beaten the Americans since Fred Perry inflicted a 5-0 defeat on the courts of Wimbledon in 1935.
