Australia swept aside Canada 5-0, with Canadian Henri Laframboise taking the only two sets dropped by the James Anderson-led Aussies.
Six years later to the month, Jack Wright and Willard Crocker led Canada to defeat Cuba 3-2 in an American Zone semi-final contest.
The 1971 Canadian Open was played at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club on red clay and won by John Newcombe who defeated Ken Rosewall in the semifinal and Tom Okker in the superb final.
The last Canadian Open championships played at the Club was in 1975 and won by Manuel Orantes.
Other important tennis tournaments held at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club included the O'Keefe International Championships amateur tournament held in the late 1950s and won in 1956 by Lew Hoad over Sven Davidson (who would win the event in 1957), and the 1959 O'Keefe Professional Championships won by Pancho Gonzales, which constituted part of Jack Kramer's Ampol world championship tournament series.