居于领导地位的美国第一流网球运动员德怀特·菲力·戴维斯,1879年7月5日生于美国密苏里州的圣路易斯。他在学生时代就是运动健将。一九○三年,戴维斯毕业于圣路易斯的华盛顿大学,获得法学士学位。后来他在哈佛大学期间又是大学院校的网球冠军,并且在一八九九年、一九○○年和一九○一年跟赫尔库姆·沃德搭配合作,获得双打冠军。一九○○年,戴维斯创立了国际闻名的戴维斯杯国际网球奖。戴维斯杯是一只银质的杯,是国际网 The leading American tennis athlete Dwight Filly Davis, born July 5, 1879 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a sportsman in his student days. In 1903, Davis graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a LLB degree. He later became a tennis champion at a college at Harvard University and won a doubles title with Herkum Ward in 1899, 1910 and 1901. In 1910, Davis founded the internationally renowned Davis Cup International Tennis Award. Davis Cup is a silver cup, is an international network