1964 Thomas Cup Pan American zone

In the first round, three nations had byes: the United States, Canada and Jamaica.^[1]

Thus, the national teams of Mexico and Japan faced each other on 22 and 23 February 1964 at Mexico City. The Mexicans were optimistic because despite having a young team, their badminton players had some international experience and they had demonstrated that they could play badminton at a competitive level. On the other side, Japan had a strong team with some experienced players who had already competed in previous Thomas Cup tournaments. As a curiosity, the best players of both teams, Yoshio Komiya and Antonio Rangel were not national champions at the moment of the competition. Japan practically took control of the confrontation from the beginning to the end winning the 9 matches. Mexico just won 3 sets; 2 of them by Antonio Rangel, and one more by Oscar Luján. Hence, the superiority and experience of Japan was more than evident and it was a presage of what was coming in the Pan American zone.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Japan	Mexico	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3
Yoshio Komiya	Sergio Fraustro	15-2	15-11
Yoshio Komiya	Antonio Rangel	13-15	15-12	15-11
Takeshi Miyanaga	Antonio Rangel	18-13	11-15	15-7
Takeshi Miyanaga	Raúl Rangel	15-4	15-6
Eichi Nagai	Oscar Luján	15-3	13-18	15-8
Eichi Nagai - Eichi Sakai	Guillermo Allier - Oscar Luján	15-4	15-2
Eichi Nagai - Eichi Sakai	Antonio Rangel - Manuel Ordorica	15-1	15-3
Yoshio Komiya - Yoshinori Itagaki	Antonio Rangel - Raúl Rangel	15-1	15-3
Yoshio Komiya - Yoshinori Itagaki	Guillermo Allier - Oscar Luján	15-4	15-4

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For the second round, Japan and Canada played for their right to get into the finals of the Pan American zone, while the United States confronted the other debutant team: Jamaica.^[1]

Japan had advanced into this round by defeating Mexico, while for Canada it was an opportunity to make it for the first time into the Inter zone round. Both teams clashed on 6 and 7 March 1964 at Vancouver, Canada. As with Mexico, Japan imposed its class to Canada and they defeated them by winning 8 matches and only losing one. The man for the Canadian team was Wayne Macdonell who won his match against Yoshio Komiya and extended to 3 sets his game against Takeshi Miyanaga. After its performance against Canada, there was no doubt, if any, that Japan was the team to be beaten in the zone.^[1]

Japan	Canada	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3
Yoshio Komiya	Wayne Macdonell	12-15	15-11	15-18
Yoshio Komiya	Bruce Rollick	15-3	15-3
Takeshi Miyanaga	Bruce Rollick	12-15	15-11	15-8
Takeshi Miyanaga	Wayne Macdonell	15-10	11-15	18-15
Eichi Nagai	Bert Fergus	15-5	15-2
Eichi Nagai - Eichi Sakai	Wayne Macdonell - Bert Fergus	15-5	15-2
Eichi Nagai - Eichi Sakai	Rolf Paterson - Edward Paterson	15-12	15-12
Yoshio Komiya - Yoshinori Itagaki	Wayne Macdonell - Bert Fergus	15-1	15-6
Yoshio Komiya - Yoshinori Itagaki	Rolf Paterson - Edward Paterson	11-15	15-5	15-3

In the other match, the reigning winner of the Pan American zone, the United States was facing the other new entrant to this competition: Jamaica. The games were held at Kingston, Jamaica, on 7 and 8 February 1964. The United States lined up many familiar faces such as JC Alston, Don Paup, Michael Hartgrove and Manny Armendariz; all badminton players with experience in past Thomas Cup tournaments. In a similar case as Mexico, despite being the first time that Jamaica was competing in the Thomas Cup, some of its players had shown that could play at a competitive level. Nevertheless, the superiority of the United States was unquestionable and they defeated Jamaica 9–0; indeed, Jamaica could not even win a set.^[1]

United States	Jamaica	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3
Don Paup	KL Palmer	15-1	15-4
Don Paup	E Hew	15-11	15-4
Manny Armendariz	E Hew	15-1	15-1
Manny Armendariz	KL Palmer	15-3	15-0
R Gorman	RD Roberts	15-12	15-7
Jimmy Lynch - Don Paup	KL Palmer - N Casserley	15-9	15-4
Jimmy Lynch - Don Paup	BJ Clear - E Hew	15-9	15-5
JC Alston - Michael Hartgrove	BJ Clear - E Hew	15-2	15-5
JC Alston - Michael Hartgrove	KL Palmer - N Casserley	15-2	15-1