Davis Cup

Davis Cup
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2016 Davis Cup
Sport Tennis
Founded 1900 (1900)
Founder Dwight F. Davis
No. of teams 16 (World Group)
130 (2016 total)
Countries ITF member nations
Most recent champion(s)  Great Britain (10th title)
Most titles  United States (32 titles)
Official website daviscup.com

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis", and the winners are referred to as the World Champion team.[1] The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. By 2016, 130 nations entered teams into the competition.[2] The most successful countries over the history of the tournament are the United States (winning 32 tournaments and finishing as runners-up 29 times) and Australia (winning 28 times, including four occasions with New Zealand as Australasia, and finishing as runners-up 19 times). The present champions are Great Britain who beat Belgium to win the title for the 10th time in 2015. It was Great Britain's first title in 79 years, and first in the open era. The win moved Great Britain to third on the all time winners list.

The women's equivalent of the Davis Cup is the Fed Cup. Australia, the Czech Republic, and the United States are the only countries to have held both Davis Cup and Fed Cup titles in the same year. The Hopman Cup, a third competition for mixed teams, carries less prestige, but is a popular curtain raiser to the tennis season.

History

Davis Cup

The tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who wished to challenge the British to a tennis competition. Once their respective lawn tennis associations agreed, one of the four Harvard players, Dwight F. Davis, designed a tournament format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low, purchasing it from his own funds for about $1,000.[3] They in turn commissioned a classically styled design from William B. Durgin's of Concord, New Hampshire, crafted by the Englishman Rowland Rhodes.[4] Davis went on to become a prominent politician in the United States in the 1920s, serving as US Secretary of War from 1925 to 1929 and as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1929 to 1932.

The first match, between the United States and Britain (competing as the "British Isles"), was held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. The American team, of which Dwight Davis was a part, surprised the British by winning the first three matches. The following year the two countries did not compete, but the US won the match in 1902 and Britain won the following four matches. By 1905 the tournament expanded to include Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia, a combined team from Australia and New Zealand that competed together until 1914.

The tournament was initially titled the International Lawn Tennis Challenge although it soon became known as the Davis Cup, after Dwight Davis' trophy. The Davis Cup competition was initially played as a challenge cup. All teams competed against one another for the right to face the previous year's champion in the final round.

Beginning in 1923, the world's teams were split into two zones: the "America Zone" and the "Europe Zone". The winners of the two zones met in the Inter-Zonal Zone ("INZ") to decide which national team would challenge the defending champion for the cup. In 1955 a third zone, the "Eastern Zone", was added. Because there were three zones, the winner of one of the three zones received a bye in the first round of the INZ challenger rounds. In 1966, the "Europe Zone" was split into two zones, "Europe Zone A" and "Europe Zone B", so the winners of the four zones competed in the INZ challenger rounds.

From 1950 to 1967, Australia dominated the competition, winning the Cup 15 times in 18 years.

Beginning in 1972, the format was changed to a knockout tournament, so that the defending champion was required to compete in all rounds, and the Davis Cup was awarded to the tournament champion.

Up until 1973, the Davis Cup had only ever been won by the United States, Great Britain/British Isles, France and Australia/Australasia. Their domination was eventually broken in 1974 when South Africa and India made the final; however the final was scratched and South Africa awarded the cup after India refused to travel to South Africa in protest at South Africa's apartheid policies. The following year saw the first actual final between two "outsider" nations, when Sweden beat Czechoslovakia 3–2, and since then many other countries have gone on to capture the trophy.

In 1981, the tiered system of competition in use today was created, in which the 16 best national teams compete in the World Group and all other national teams compete in one of four groups in one of three regional zones. In 1989, the tiebreak was introduced into Davis Cup competition. It is now used in all sets except for the fifth, which remains an advantage set, though it too will become a tiebreak from 2016.[5]

Davis Cup games have been affected by political protests several times, especially in Sweden:

Format

Monument to the Davis Cup at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France

Tournament

The 16 best national teams are assigned to the World Group and compete annually for the Davis Cup. Nations which are not in the World Group compete in one of three regional zones (Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe/Africa). The competition is spread over four weekends during the year. Each elimination round between competing nations is held in one of the countries, and is played as the best of five matches (4 singles, 1 doubles). The ITF determines the host countries for all possible matchups before each year's tournament.

The World Group is the top group and includes the world's best 16 national teams. Teams in the World Group play a four-round elimination tournament. Teams are seeded based on a ranking system released by the ITF, taking into account previous years' results. The defending champion and runner-up are always the top two seeds in the tournament. The losers of the first-round matches are sent to the World Group playoff round, where they play along with winners from Group I of the regional zones. The playoff round winners play in the World Group for the next year's tournament, while the losers play in Group I of their respective regional zone.

Each of the three regional zones is divided into four groups. Groups I and II play elimination rounds, with the losing teams facing relegation to the next-lower group. The teams in Groups III and those in Group IV play a round-robin tournament with promotion and relegation.

Structure

Level Group(s)
1 World Group

16 countries

2 Group One Americas Zone

6 countries

 Group One Europe/Africa Zone

12 countries

 Group One Asia/Oceania Zone

6 countries

3 Group Two Americas Zone

8 countries

 Group Two Europe/Africa Zone

16 countries

 Group Two Asia/Oceania Zone

8 countries

4 Group Three Americas Zone

9 countries

 Group Three Europe Zone

16 countries

 Group Three Africa Zone

16 countries

 Group Three Asia/Oceania Zone

8 countries

5 Group Four Asia/Oceania Zone

9 countries

Note: The total number of nations in Group One is 24. However, the distribution among the three zones may vary each year, according to the number of nations promoted or relegated between Group One and the World Group. The number of nations in the World Group and Group One together is 22 from Euro/Africa Zone, 9 from Americas Zone and 9 from Asia/Oceania Zone.

Ties and rubbers

As in other cup competitions tie is used in the Davis Cup to mean an elimination round. In the Davis Cup, the word rubber means an individual match.

In the annual World Group competition, 16 nations compete in 8 first-round ties; the 8 winners compete in 4 quarter-final-round ties; the 4 winners compete in 2 semifinal-round ties; and the 2 winners compete in the final round tie.

Each tie consists of 5 rubbers, which are played in 3 days (usually on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The winner of the tie is the nation which wins 3 or more of the 5 rubbers in the tie. On the first day, the first 2 rubbers are singles, which are generally played by each nation's 2 best available singles players. On the second day, the doubles rubber is played. On the third day, the final 2 rubbers are typically reverse singles, in which the first-day contestants usually play again, but they swap opponents from the first day's singles rubbers. However, in certain circumstances, the team captain may replace one or two of the players who played the singles on Friday by other players who were nominated for the tie. For example, if the tie has already been decided in favour of one of the teams, it is common for younger or lower-ranked team members to play the remaining dead rubbers in order for them to gain Davis Cup experience.

Since 2011, if a nation has a winning 3-1 lead after the first reverse single match and that match has gone to four sets or more, then the remaining reverse single match which is a dead rubber is not played. All five rubbers are played if one nation has a winning 3-0 lead after the doubles match.[8]

Ties are played at a venue chosen by one of the competing countries. The right of choice is given on an alternating basis. Therefore, countries play in the country where the last tie between the teams was not held. In case the two countries have not met since 1970, lots are drawn to determine the host country.[9]

Venues in the World Group must comply with certain minimum standards, including a minimum seating capacity as follows:[10]

Prior to each tie, the captain of each nation nominates a squad of four players and decides who will compete in the tie. On the day before play starts, the order of play for the first day is drawn at random. In the past, teams could substitute final day singles players only in case of injury or illness, verified by a doctor, but current rules permit the captain to designate any player to play the last two singles rubbers, provided that no first day matchup is repeated. There is no restriction on which of the playing team members may play the doubles rubber: the two singles players, two other players (usually doubles specialists) or a combination.

Each rubber is normally played in a best-of-5 set. The first four sets use a tiebreak if necessary, but the fifth set usually has no tiebreaker, so play continues until one side wins by two games (e.g. 10–8). However, if a team has clinched the tie before all 5 rubbers have been completed, the remaining rubbers may be shortened to the best-of-3-sets, with a tie breaker if necessary to decide all three sets.

In Group III and Group IV competition, each tie consists only of 3 rubbers, which include 2 singles and one doubles rubber, which is played in a single day. The rubbers are in the best-of-3-set format, with a tie breaker if necessary to decide all three sets.

Records and statistics

Team

For more details on this topic, see List of Davis Cup champions.
Country Years won Runners up
 United States 1900, 1902, 1913, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1937, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2007 (32) 1903, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1914, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1973, 1984, 1991, 1997, 2004 (29)
 Australia 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1914, 1919, 1939, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1977, 1983, 1986, 1999, 2003 (28) 1912, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1936, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1990, 1993, 2000, 2001 (19)
 Great Britain 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1912, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 2015 (10) 1900, 1902, 1907, 1913, 1919, 1931, 1937, 1978 (8)
 France 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1991, 1996, 2001 (9) 1925, 1926, 1933, 1982, 1999, 2002, 2010, 2014 (8)
 Sweden 1975, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1994, 1997, 1998 (7) 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1996 (5)
 Spain 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011 (5) 1965, 1967, 2003, 2012 (4)
 West Germany
 Germany		 1988, 1989, 1993 (3) 1970, 1985 (2)
 Czechoslovakia
 Czech Republic		 1980, 2012, 2013 (3) 1975, 2009 (2)
 Russia 2002, 2006 (2) 1994, 1995, 2007 (3)
 Italy 1976 (1) 1960, 1961, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1998 (6)
 Serbia 2010 (1) 2013 (1)
  Switzerland 2014 (1) 1992 (1)
 South Africa 1974 (1) (0)
 Croatia 2005 (1) (0)
 Argentina (0) 1981, 2006, 2008, 2011 (4)
 India (0) 1966, 1974, 1987 (3)
 Romania (0) 1969, 1971, 1972 (3)
 Belgium (0) 1904, 2015 (2)
 Japan (0) 1921 (1)
 Mexico (0) 1962 (1)
 Chile (0) 1976 (1)
 Slovakia (0) 2005 (1)

Titles by country (since 1972)

Country Titles First Last
 United States 9 1972 2007
 Sweden 7 1975 1998
 Australia 6 1973 2003
 Spain 5 2000 2011
 Czechoslovakia
 Czech Republic		 3 1980 2013
 France 3 1991 2001
 Germany 3 1988 1993
 Russia 2 2002 2006
 South Africa 1 1974
 Italy 1 1976
 Croatia 1 2005
 Serbia 1 2010
  Switzerland 1 2014
 Great Britain 1 2015

Years in World Group

Individual

1Players must now be aged 14 and over

Current ITF rankings

For more information, see ITF Rankings

Rank Nation Points Previous
1  Great Britain 25,919.38 1 (Steady)
2  Czech Republic 24,581.25 2 (Steady)
3   Switzerland 18,331.25 3 (Steady)
4  Belgium 13,627.50 4 (Steady)
5  France 12,950.00 5 (Steady)
6  Argentina 12,527.50 6 (Steady)
7  Serbia 10,562.50 7 (Steady)
8  Italy 8,415.00 9 (Increase1)
9  Australia 7,993.75 8 (Decrease1)
10  United States 6,371.88 11 (Increase1)
11  Croatia 5,362.50 16 (Increase5)
12  Canada 5,025.00 10 (Decrease2)
13  Spain 3,400.00 13 (Steady)
14  Kazakhstan 3,306.25 12 (Decrease2)
15  Japan 3,187.50 14 (Decrease1)
16  Germany 3,045.00 15 (Decrease1)
17  Poland 2,740.00 17 (Steady)
18  Slovakia 1,990.00 18 (Steady)
19  Netherlands 1,825.00 19 (Steady)
20  Brazil 1,792.50 22 (Increase2)
21  Russia 1,775.00 26 (Increase5)
22  India 1,765.00 20 (Decrease1)
23  Ukraine 1,681.25 19 (Decrease3)
24  Dominican Republic 1,470.50 23 (Decrease1)
25  Uzbekistan 1,422.50 25 (Steady)
26  Ecuador 1,420.00 30 (Increase4)
27  China 1,380.31 32 (Increase5)
28  Colombia 1,362.50 24 (Decrease4)
29  Israel 1,345.00 27 (Decrease2)
30  South Korea 1,235.94 29 (Decrease1)

Complete rankings As of 7 March 2016

ATP points distribution (from 2009 to 2015)

Davis Cup
Rubber category Match win Match loss Team bonus Performance bonus Total achievable
Singles Play-offs 5 / 101 15
First round 40 102 80
Quarterfinals 65 130
Semifinals 70 140
Final 75 753 1254 150 / 2253 / 2754
Cumulative total 500 500 to 5353 6254 6254
Doubles Play-offs 10 10
First round 50 102 50
Quarterfinals 80 80
Semifinals 90 90
Final 95 355 95 / 1305
Cumulative total 315 3505 3505

ATP Points were distributed from 2009 to 2015[12]

Glossary

Only World Group and World Group Play-Off matches and only live matches earn points. Dead rubbers earn no points. If a player does not compete in the singles of one or more rounds he will receive points from the previous round when playing singles at the next tie. This last rule also applies for playing in doubles matches.[12]

1 A player who wins a singles rubber in the first day of the tie is awarded 5 points, whereas a singles rubber win in tie's last day grants 10 points for a total of 15 available points.[12]

2 For the first round only, any player who competes in a live rubber, without a win, receives 10 ranking points for participation.[12]

3 Team bonus awarded to a singles player who wins 7 live matches in a calendar year and his team wins the competition.[12]

4 Performance bonus awarded to a singles player who wins 8 live matches in a calendar year. In this case, no Team bonus is awarded.[12]

5 Team bonus awarded to an unchanged doubles team who wins 4 matches in a calendar year and his team wins the competition.[12]

Honor roll

Last ten tournaments:

CountryYears06070809101112131415Best result
Argentina Argentina 10 FQFFQFSFFSFSF1RSF F (1981, 2006, 2008, 2011)
Australia Australia 4 SF1R1RSF W (1907–09, 1911, 1914, 1919, 1939, 1950–53, 1955–57,
1959-62, 1964–67, 1973, 1977, 1983, 1986, 1999, 2003)
Austria Austria 7 1R1R1R1R1RQF1R SF (1990)
Belarus Belarus 2 QF1R SF (2004)
Belgium Belgium 7 QF1R1R1R1R1RF F (1904, 2015)
Brazil Brazil 2 1R1R SF (1992, 2000)
Canada Canada 4 1RSF1RQF SF (1913, 2013)
Chile Chile 5 QF1R1RQF1R F (1976)
Croatia Croatia 8 QF1RSFQF1RQF1R1R W (2005)
Czech Republic Czech Republic 9 1RQFFSF1RWWSF1R W (1980, 2012–13)
Ecuador Ecuador 1 1R QF (1985)
France France 10 QFQFQF1RFSFQFQFFQF W (1927–32, 1991, 1996, 2001)
Germany Germany 10 1RSFQFQF1RQF1R1RQF1R W (1988–89, 1993)
United Kingdom Great Britain 3 1RQFW W (1903–06, 1912, 1933–36, 2015)
India India 2 1R1R F (1966, 1974, 1987)
Israel Israel 4 1RSF1R1R SF (2009)
Italy Italy 4 1RQFSF1R W (1976)
Japan Japan 3 1RQF1R F (1921)
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 5 QF1RQFQFQF QF (2011, 2013–15)
Netherlands Netherlands 3 1R1R1R SF (2001)
Peru Peru 1 1R 1R (2008)
Romania Romania 5 1R1R1R1R1R F (1969, 1971–72)
Russia Russia 7 WFSFQFQF1R1R W (2002, 2006)
Serbia Serbia 8 1R1RWSFQFF1RQF W (2010)
Slovakia Slovakia 1 1R F (2005)
South Korea South Korea 1 1R 1R (1981, 1987, 2008)
Spain Spain 9 1RQFWWQFWF1R1R W (2000, 2004, 2008–09, 2011)
Sweden Sweden 7 1RSFQF1R1RQF1R W (1975, 1984–85, 1987, 1994, 1997-98)
Switzerland Switzerland 8 1R1R1R1R1R1RW1R W (2014)
United States United States 10 SFWSFQF1RQFSFQF1R1R W (1900, 1902, 1913, 1920–26, 1937–38, 1946–49, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1968–72, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2007)

Statistic

After 2015 edition

Legend
Davis Cup team
(156 teams + 10[N 1] dissolved)
 F4 [N 2] Run of ___ by tie [N 3] 2W 2L Y Pld W% T Pld W L WORLD GROUP [N 4] WG PO
W-L [N 5]
Wins Loses F4 RoW Y Pld Y LS W% T Pld W L
TOT H A
 Albania 0 1 11 0 0 6 0.05 21 1 20 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Algeria 0 14 7 0 1 37 0.50 102 51 51 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Andorra 0 6 0 0 13 0.42 55 23 32 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Angola 0 3 2 0 0 3 0.64 14 9 5 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda [N 6] 0 2 0 0 6 0.29 31 9 22 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Argentina WG15 6 0 0 61 0.57 147 84 63 13 3 23 14+ 0.60 58 35 23 5-7
 Armenia [N 7] 0 8 0 0 20 0.43 83 36 46 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Aruba 0 4 0 0 6 0.40 25 10 14 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Australasia [N 8] 0 5 2 0 0 8 0.60 10 6 4 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Australia [N 9] WG23 9 2 1 96 0.73 251 184 67 15 7 28 15 0.67 72 48 24 8-6
 Austria 1 3 0 1 81 0.46 151 70 81 1 2 17 6 0.23 22 5 17 13-8
 Azerbaijan [N 7] 0 8 0 0 11 0.44 52 23 29 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Bahamas [N 10] 0 6 1 0 27 0.51 80 41 39 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-1
 Bahrain 0 7 0 0 26 0.46 116 53 63 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Bangladesh 0 7 0 0 30 0.49 121 60 61 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Barbados [N 10] 0 8 0 0 26 0.43 108 46 62 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Belarus [N 7] 1 6 0 0 22 0.57 53 30 23 1 2 4 4 0.43 7 3 4 2-3
 Belgium WG2 5 0 1 93 0.51 183 92 91 2 3 17 4+ 0.29 24 7 17 14-8
 Benin 0 6 0 0 16 0.44 75 33 42 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Bermuda 0 4 0 0 18 0.30 80 24 56 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Bolivia 0 6 0 1 35 0.45 110 50 60 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina [N 11] 0 6 0 0 20 0.54 85 46 39 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Botswana 0 3 0 0 16 0.36 74 27 47 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Brazil 2 6 1 2 67 0.56 154 86 68 2 2 13 7 0.32 19 6 13 8-15
British Isles [N 12] 0 4 4 0 0 11 0.50 12 6 6 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Brunei 0 1 20 0 0 13 0.08 63 5 58 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Bulgaria 0 7 1 1 48 0.54 106 57 49 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Burkina Faso 0 3+ 3 0 0 2 0.56 9 5 4 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Cambodia 0 5 3 0 0 4 0.56 18 10 8 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Cameroon 0 4 0 0 14 0.40 50 20 30 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Canada WG1 4 1 1 86 0.43 148 63 85 1 2 7 4+ 0.30 10 3 7 6-6
Caribbean/West Indies [N 13] 0 1 20 0 0 34 0.06 36 2 34 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Chile 2 4 0 0 68 0.54 147 79 68 0 3 9 3 0.25 12 3 9 6-9
 China 0 3 2 0 40 0.47 86 40 46 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-2
 Chinese Taipei 0 3 0 1 42 0.45 82 37 45 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Colombia 0 4 1 0 48 0.51 101 52 49 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-5
 Congo 0 1 19+ 0 0 9 0.03 39 1 38 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Costa Rica 0 5 0 0 26 0.48 100 48 52 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Croatia [N 11] WG2 6 7 0 0 23 0.58 50 29 21 2 5 13 6 0.48 23 11 12 7-5
 Cuba 0 5 0 0 46 0.42 90 38 52 0 0 1 1 0.00 1 0 1 0-2
 Cyprus 0 7 0 0 31 0.51 88 45 43 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Czech Republic [N 14] WG13 11 21 0 1 82 0.62 204 126 78 9 10 34 25 0.53 68 36 32 12-1
 Denmark 0 6 0 2 86 0.52 182 94 88 0 1 9 4 0.10 10 1 9 8-5
 Djibouti 0 0 0 0 44+ 0 0 10 0.00 44 0 44 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Dominican Republic 0 7 0 0 27 0.58 79 46 33 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-1
Eastern Caribbean [N 15] 0 2 0 0 14 0.20 66 13 53 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Ecuador 0 5 0 1 50 0.52 107 56 51 0 1 5 3 0.17 6 1 5 4-9
 Egypt 0 5 0 0 71 0.48 145 70 75 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 El Salvador 0 7 0 0 25 0.58 89 52 37 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Estonia [N 7] 0 9 0 0 24 0.58 81 47 34 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Ethiopia 0 2 0 0 8 0.24 34 8 26 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Fiji [N 16] 0 2 3 0 0 3 0.19 16 3 10 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Finland 0 5 2 0 71 0.40 121 48 73 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-3
 France WG13 11 4 2 96 0.65 247 160 87 12 7 33 17+ 0.62 79 49 30 7-2
 Gabon 0 2 5 0 0 3 0.23 13 3 10 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Georgia [N 7] 0 7 1 0 22 0.64 77 49 28 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Germany [N 17] WG8 10 22 1 4 80 0.65 218 141 77 8 9 32 20 0.52 61 32 29 15-3
 Ghana 0 9 0 0 26 0.48 89 43 46 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Great Britain [N 18] WG3 10 2 0 104 0.61 243 149 94 2 4+ 14 4 0.38 21 8 13 10-11
 Greece 0 6 1 1 66 0.45 133 60 73 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Guatemala 0 11 0 0 26 0.62 86 53 33 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Haiti 0 10 0 0 24 0.53 78 41 37 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Hawaii 0 0 0 0 1+ 0 0 1 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Honduras 0 6 0 0 18 0.51 85 43 41 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Hong Kong 0 6 0 0 39 0.48 85 41 44 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Hungary 0 4 0 2 81 0.49 162 80 82 0 0 2 1 0.00 2 0 2 2-7
 Iceland 0 5 0 0 20 0.38 86 33 52 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 India 3 5 1 0 79 0.60 191 114 77 2 3 13 5 0.35 20 7 13 9-13
 Indonesia 0 3 4 0 49 0.43 96 41 55 0 0 2 1 0.00 2 0 2 2-4
 Iran 0 7 0 0 41 0.51 102 52 50 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Iraq 0 4 0 0 18 0.34 70 24 46 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Ireland [N 19] 0 6 0 2 85 0.41 148 61 87 0 0 1 1 0.00 1 0 1 1-1
 Israel 1 4 4 0 0 62 0.43 109 47 62 1 2 10 5 0.23 13 3 10 7-10
 Italy WG9 9 28 2 2 85 0.66 244 160 84 4 3 24 20 0.44 43 19 24 10-6
 Ivory Coast 0 4 0 0 27 0.49 79 39 40 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Jamaica [N 10] 0 7 1 0 28 0.46 99 46 52 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Japan WG0 4 0 0 81 0.56 185 104 81 0 1 5 3+ 0.17 6 1 5 4-9
 Jordan 0 6 0 0 26 0.42 106 44 62 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Kazakhstan [N 7] WG0 6 0 2 21 0.60 65 39 26 0 1 5 5+ 0.44 9 4 5 2-0
 Kenya 0 5 0 0 25 0.37 81 30 51 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Kosovo [N 20] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Kuwait 0 6 0 0 27 0.59 92 54 38 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Kyrgyzstan [N 7] 0 4 0 0 9 0.29 41 12 29 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Latvia [N 7] 0 7 1 0 23 0.61 61 37 24 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Lebanon 0 9 0 0 32 0.51 91 46 45 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Lesotho 0 1 5 0 0 2 0.22 9 2 7 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Libya 0 0 0 0 10+ 0 0 3 0.00 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Liechtenstein 0 2 0 0 8 0.32 34 11 23 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Lithuania [N 7] 0 6 0 0 22 0.57 84 48 36 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Luxembourg 0 6 0 0 67 0.39 113 44 69 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Macedonia [N 11] 0 9 0 0 21 0.56 75 42 33 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Madagascar 0 5 0 0 19 0.47 78 37 41 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Malaysia 0 6 0 0 54 0.44 118 52 66 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Mali 0 2 4 0 0 3 0.36 11 4 7 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Malta 0 4 0 0 27 0.34 90 31 58 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Mauritius 0 4 0 0 8 0.36 36 13 23 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Mexico 0 4 1 0 84 0.48 170 82 88 0 1 10 5 0.17 12 2 10 7-4
 Moldova [N 7] 0 7 0 0 21 0.58 85 49 36 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Monaco 0 9 1 0 75 0.46 146 67 79 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Mongolia 0 2 4 0 0 2 0.30 10 3 7 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Montenegro [N 21] 0 4 0 0 9 0.63 32 20 11 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Morocco 0 5 0 0 45 0.51 92 47 45 0 0 3 2 0.00 3 0 3 2-4
 Mozambique 0 1+ 2 0 0 2 0.33 9 3 6 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Myanmar 0 3 0 0 13 0.41 49 20 29 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Namibia 0 3 0 0 13 0.40 60 24 36 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Netherlands 1 3 1 0 88 0.45 157 70 87 1 2 18 15 0.31 26 8 18 11-8
 Netherlands Antilles [N 22] 0 9 0 0 14 0.63 41 26 15 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 New Zealand [N 23] 1 3 1 1 66 0.48 131 63 68 1 2 8 4 0.38 13 5 8 3-10
 Nigeria 0 6 0 0 28 0.50 86 43 43 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Norway 0 4 0 1 80 0.38 134 51 83 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-1
 Oman 0 6 0 0 22 0.38 101 38 63 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
Pacific Oceania [N 24] 0 5 0 0 21 0.52 79 41 38 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Pakistan 0 6 1 0 49 0.51 104 53 50 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-2
 Panama 0 5 0 0 20 0.45 91 41 50 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Paraguay 0 5 1 0 35 0.53 78 41 37 0 1 7 7 0.36 11 4 7 3-2
 Peru 0 6 2 1 42 0.44 82 36 46 0 0 1 1 0.00 1 0 1 1-3
 Philippines 0 8 2 3 62 0.53 140 74 66 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-1
 Poland WG0 5 0 2 77 0.51 152 77 75 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 1-1
 Portugal 0 5 1 0 60 0.41 103 42 61 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-1
 Puerto Rico 0 10 0 1 24 0.62 92 57 35 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Qatar 0 5 0 0 24 0.42 108 45 63 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Romania 2 6 1 2 72 0.51 146 75 71 0 1 14 7 0.18 17 3 14 10-8
 Russia [N 25] 10 7 17 3 1 51 0.64 132 84 48 8 7 25 20 0.55 51 28 23 12-7
 Rwanda 0 4 0 0 11 0.27 45 12 34 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Saint Lucia [N 26] 0 3 0 0 9 0.46 48 22 26 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 San Marino 0 4 0 0 23 0.36 100 36 63 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Saudi Arabia 0 5 0 0 23 0.50 102 51 51 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Senegal 0 6 0 0 21 0.48 65 31 34 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Serbia [N 27] WG3 7 7 0 0 21 0.70 56 39 17 3 6 8 8+ 0.61 18 11 7 4-1
 Singapore 0 8 0 0 32 0.49 117 58 59 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Slovakia 1 6 0 1 22 0.62 52 32 20 1 3 7 5 0.42 12 5 7 4-7
 Slovenia [N 11] 0 4 0 0 23 0.58 55 32 23 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 South Africa 1 11 2 1 58 0.59 140 83 57 0 1 4 4 0.43 7 3 4 1-6
 South Korea 0 5 0 3 54 0.45 105 47 58 0 0 3 1 0.00 3 0 3 2-11
Soviet Union Soviet Union &  CIS [N 28] 2 5 1 0 28 0.64 72 46 26 0 0 5 2 0.00 5 0 5 6-5
 Spain 10 9 25+ 0 2 80 0.62 199 124 75 9 9 30 18 0.60 62 37 25 14-3
 Sri Lanka 0 7 0 0 56 0.47 127 60 67 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Sudan 0 1 14+ 0 0 8 0.08 39 3 36 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Sweden 18 11 6 0 82 0.66 227 149 78 16 11 31 19 0.69 81 56 25 7-2
  Switzerland WG3 5 0 1 86 0.48 162 77 85 3 4 24 13 0.36 36 13 23 17-9
 Syria 0 8 0 0 30 0.46 114 52 62 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Tajikistan [N 7] 0 5 0 0 13 0.53 58 31 27 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Thailand 0 3 0 0 43 0.53 95 50 45 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-4
 Togo 0 4 0 0 13 0.40 50 20 30 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Trinidad and Tobago [N 10] 0 5 0 0 24 0.32 99 32 66 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Tunisia 0 6 0 0 30 0.47 102 48 54 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Turkey 0 6 0 0 56 0.46 132 61 70 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Turkmenistan [N 7] 0 5 0 0 12 0.32 53 17 36 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Uganda 0 3 0 0 10 0.22 46 10 36 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Ukraine [N 7] 0 6 0 0 23 0.61 56 34 22 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-3
 United Arab Emirates 0 7 0 0 23 0.46 114 52 62 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 United States WG23 17 18 1 3 101 0.76 284 215 69 19 8 34 27+ 0.68 88 60 28 9-1
 Uruguay 0 4 0 1 48 0.47 93 44 49 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-3
 U.S. Virgin Islands 0 3 0 0 15 0.28 68 19 48 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Uzbekistan [N 7] 0 6 0 0 22 0.62 55 34 21 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-8
 Venezuela 0 6 0 1 52 0.46 105 48 57 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-2
 Vietnam 0 6 0 0 22 0.62 76 47 29 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Yemen 0 0 0 0 7+ 0 0 2 0.00 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Yugoslavia [N 29] 3 5 1 1 69 0.56 152 85 67 3 2 9 9 0.44 16 7 9 5-0
 Zambia 0 5 0 0 14 0.39 51 20 31 0 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0-0
 Zimbabwe [N 30] 0 5 1 0 39 0.52 97 50 47 0 1 3 3 0.25 4 1 3 1-4

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Australasia, British Isles, Caribbean/West Indies, Czechoslovakia, Fiji, FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro, Hawaii, Netherlands Antilles, Soviet Union/CIS, Yugoslavia.
  2. ↑ Since 1972, when Challenge Round was abolished. 1st round of Inter-Zonal Zone is considered semi-final round.
  3. ↑ Walkover (W.O.) is not counted as win/loss.
  4. ↑ World Group Play-off ties don't count as World Group ties
  5. ↑ Between 1981 and 1988 winners of zonal finals were directly promoted in World group while losers in first round of World group played relegation play-off. That zonal final ties which decided which team is promoted and relegation play-off ties are counted in this statistic.
    W.O. is not counted.
    Cuba, Israel and Morocco, each once, were promoted in World group due to w.o.
  6. ↑ Competed as part of Caribbean/West Indies Davis Cup team until 1987 and Eastern Caribbean Davis Cup team from 1991-96.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Competed as part of Soviet Union (USSR) Davis Cup team until 1991 and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Davis Cup team in 1992.
  8. ↑ Nations represented: Australia, New Zealand. Australia and New Zealand have always been two separate countries but did compete together under the alias Australasia from 1905-1914. Despite players from New Zealand being eligible to represent Australasia, Tony Wilding would be the only New Zealander to play for the team while it existed. Australian Davis Cup team was born in 1919 and it assumed all the Australasian Davis Cup team records.
  9. ↑ Assumed all the Australasia Davis Cup team records.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Competed as part of Caribbean/West Indies Davis Cup team until 1987.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Competed as part of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team until 1990.
  12. ↑ Great Britain and Ireland competed as British Isles from 1900-12 before participating separately from 1913.
  13. ↑ Nations represented: Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Eastern Caribbean Davis Cup team. Caribbean/West Indies last competed in Davis Cup in 1987. Since then, the constituent nations have competed in their own right.
  14. ↑ Assumed all the Czechoslovakia Davis Cup team records.
  15. ↑ Competed as part of Caribbean/West Indies Davis Cup team until 1987. Nations represented: full members of The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and associate members whose population does not exceed 200,000: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda (until 1996), British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia (until 1997), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
  16. ↑ Now represented by Pacific Oceania Davis Cup team.
  17. ↑ Assumed all the West Germany Davis Cup team records as East Germany never participated in the Davis Cup.
  18. ↑ Assumed all the British Isles Davis Cup team records.
  19. ↑ Competed as part of British Isles from 1900-12 before participating separately from 1913.
  20. ↑ Competed as part of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team until 1992, FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro Davis Cup team from 1993-2006 and Serbia Davis Cup team in 2007.
  21. ↑ Competed as part of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team until 1992 and FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro Davis Cup team from 1993-2006.
  22. ↑ Dissolved in 2011.
  23. ↑ Competed as part of Australasian Davis Cup team until 1914.
  24. ↑ Nations represented: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
  25. ↑ Assumed all the Soviet Union (USSR) Davis Cup team & CIS Davis Cup team records.
  26. ↑ Competed as part of Caribbean/West Indies Davis Cup team until 1987 and Eastern Caribbean Davis Cup team from 1991-97.
  27. ↑ Competed as part of Yugoslavia Davis Cup team until 1992 and FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro Davis Cup team from 1993-2006. Assumed all the FR Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro Davis Cup team records.
  28. ↑ Nations represented: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. Soviet Union (USSR) Davis Cup team competed from 1962-1991. The team competed as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in 1992. Since then, the constituent nations have competed in their own right. All records were assumed by the Russia Davis Cup team.
  29. ↑ Nations represented: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia. Yugoslavia last competed in Davis Cup in 1990. Since then, the constituent nations have competed in their own right.
  30. ↑ Includes all of Rhodesia Davis Cup team records. Rhodesia made 6 Davis Cup appearances between 1963 and 1976.

References

  1. ↑ "Andy Murray wins Davis Cup for Great Britain - BBC Sport". BBC Sport.
  2. ↑ "Davis Cup Format". www.daviscup.com. Retrieved 20 January 2016. In 2016, 130 nations have entered Davis Cup by BNP Paribas
  3. ↑ John Grasso (September 2011). "Davis Cup". Historical Dictionary of Tennis. Scarecrow Press. p. 79. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "Davis Cup Grows by a Third". daviscup.com. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  5. ↑ "Davis Cup set for fifth set tiebreak in 2016".
  6. ↑ 6,000 join Malmö Davis Cup protest. The Local 7 March 2009.
  7. ↑ Crowd ban 'risks bolstering extremists' . The Local 7 March 2009.
  8. ↑ "ITF revises Davis Cup dead rubber policy". DavisCup.com. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Davis Cup Rules & Regulations - 2012 (English)". Archived from the original on 20 November 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  10. ↑ "Davis Cup Rules". Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 "History - Records". Davis Cup. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The 2015 ATP® Official Rulebook" (pdf). 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2016-03-05.

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