[1] Säilä made his debut for the Finland Davis Cup team during the 1962 Europe Zone second round tie against Czechoslovakia.

During his sixteen-year Davis Cup career, he played in twenty-three Davis Cup singles rubbers, seven of which he won, and he also played in thirteen doubles rubbers, with two wins.

[2] During 1967, Säilä was recruited to attend college in the United States at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He played for the university tennis team and graduated in 1970.

[3] Säilä participated at the Wimbledon Championships on two occasions, with a best result of reaching the third round in 1967, before losing to the British player, Roger Taylor.