Davis Cup Tournament
This tournament is one of the leading tennis events in the category of Men. The tournaments run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested by most of the countries in the world. davis cup which is regarded as the largest annual international team competition in sport of tennis is somewhat similar to the Grand Slam events.
Davis Cup began in 1900 as a challenge between the United States and Great Britain. In 2005, 134 nations entered teams into the competition. The United States is the most successful nation to date, winning 31 tournaments, and finishing as runners-up 29 times. Australia is the second most successful, winning 28 times and finishing second 18 times.
The tournament was initially known as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge. It was renamed the Davis Cup following the death of Dwight Davis in 1945. Dwight Davis also became a prominent politician in the United States in the 1920s, serving as Secretary of War from 1925-29 and as Governor General of the Philippines from 1929-32.
Up until 1973, the tournament had only ever been won by the United States, Great Britain, France and Australia/Australasia. Their domination was broken in 1974, when South Africa and India qualified for the final. India refused to play in the final that year in protest against the South African government's apartheid policies, thus handing South Africa a walk-over victory. (As of 2006, South Africa has never actually played a single finals match). The following tournament year saw the first final played between two "outsider" nations, with Sweden beating Czechoslovakia 3-2, and since then, several other countries have gone on to capture the trophy.
Countries aspire to compete in the elite World Group of 16 nations. Other nations play in regional zones (Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe/Africa) in one of four groups. In this davis cup tournament the competition is spread over four weekends during the year. Each tie between competing nations is held in one of the countries. The ITF determines host countries for all possible matchups before each year's tournament.
# Consecutive titles
* All-time: 7, United States, 1920-1926
* Post-Challenge Round: 2; United States, '78-'79, '81-'82; Sweden, '84-'85, '97-'98; West Germany, '88-'89
# Consecutive finals appearances
*All-time: 25, Australia, 1938-1968
* Post-Challenge Round: 7, Sweden, 1983-1989
# Most number of games in a tie
* All-time: 327, India 3-2 Australia, 1974 Eastern Zone final
* World Group (before tiebreak): 281, Paraguay 3-2 France, 1985 first round
* World Group (since tiebreak): 281, Romania 3-2 Ecuador, 2003 World Group play-offs
This was another checkpoint in the History of Davis Cup. .
The features the best players from the professional tournament circuit playing for their respective countries. davis cup tournament is staged over the course of a full year, with 16 countries in the elite World Group playing off in three preliminary rounds - one in late winter, one in the spring and one in the early fall.
A unique aspect of the event is that the country chosen to host the tie has the right to choose the surface on which the matches are played.
Mario Ancic seals an historic first Davis Cup win for Croatia in December with victory over Slovakia in Bratislava
For much of the davis cup's history the US dominated competition, winning a total of 31 since the cup's inception in 1900. In recent years, the Davis Cup has been dominated by European and Australian teams.
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