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39 unusual facts about Davis Cup


1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1927 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 22nd edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1934 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1934 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 29th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1935 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1935 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 30th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The 1936 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 31st edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup.

1973 Wimbledon Championships

In May 1973 Nikola Pilić, Yugoslavia's number one tennis player, was suspended by his national lawn tennis association, who claimed he had refused to play in a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand earlier that month.

2010 ATP World Tour Finals

The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2010 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

2011 ATP World Tour Finals

The top eight players (or teams) with the most countable points accumulated in Grand Slam, ATP World Tour, and Davis Cup tournaments during the year qualify for the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

2011 Hopman Cup

Djokovic comes into the tournament fresh from reaching his third grand slam final at the US Open and winning the Davis Cup as well as reaching a career high of world number two in 2010.

2015 Davis Cup

Below are the eight teams who made it to the quarterfinal stage of the 2014 Davis Cup, as well as the eight teams who won in the World Group Play-Offs.

The 2015 Davis Cup (also known as the 2015 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas for sponsorship purposes) is the 104th edition of the tournament between national teams in men's tennis.

Aasif Karim

Karim also holds the unique distinction of having captained his country in both representative cricket (ODIs) and tennis (Davis Cup) competition.

Antonio Guzmán Capel

2009 Portrait of Brother Rafael (Rafael Arnáiz Barón), for his canonization in Vatican City on 11/10/09 ----- Poster announcing Davis Cup, Murcia

Bohdan Tomaszewski

His radio debut took place in early May 1947, when he commented Davis Cup match Poland - Great Britain in Warsaw.

C More Tennis

C More Tennis is a Scandinavian premium sports channel, and it replaced Canal+ Sport 2 on September 4, 2012 and became an sports channel with only tennis from ATP Tour, WTA Tour & Davis Cup.

Chris Zoricich

His brother, Michael (who played Davis Cup tennis for New Zealand), and his father, Ivan, also turned out for Central at various points.

Dale Power

Power also has the distinction of having played in the longest set in Davis Cup history, a second set that was won by Colombian Álvaro Betancourt 24-22 in a match won by Power in 5 sets in a 1976 tie.

Power held the best singles Davis Cup record by winning percentage (6–2) of any Canadian player.

Damien Hughes

Hughes, on a tennis scholarship was captain of the Morehouse College tennis team and had been selected for the Eastern Caribbean Davis Cup team on several occasions.

Daoud Hanania

He is also a tennis enthusiast, having served several terms as President of the Jordan Tennis Federation, during which time Jordan entered Davis Cup competition for the first time.

Forest Lodge, New South Wales

Hoad went on to be a member of Australia’s four Davis Cup winning squads in 1952 to 1956, won Wimbledon twice and was the world’s number one tennis player in 1956 before turning professional.

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Hell River

The producter, Ika Panajotovic, was a lawyer and former tennis player who represented Yugoslavia in the Davis Cup and reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon.

Henri Rochon

Henri Rochon (12 March 1924 – 5 February 2005) was a Canadian National tennis champion and Canadian Davis Cup tennis player.

Himno de Riego

At the Davis Cup tennis finals held in Australia in 2003, James Morrison played this anthem, El Himno de Riego instead of Spain's current national anthem, the Marcha Real ("Royal March").

Juan Avendaño

Juan Bautista Avendaño Iglesias (born January 29, 1961 in Luanco, Asturias) is a former professional tennis player from Spain, best remembered for being Spain Davis Cup team captain along Jordi Arrese and Josep Perlas when Spain won its second Davis Cup title, in 2004.

Krešimir Friedrich

He and his brother Ferdo began visiting the local tennis courts in Koprivnica in their youth, frequenting the same club where contemporary painter and eventual fifth-ranked national player and subsequent Davis Cup captain Fedor Malančec trained at the time.

Lailee Bakhtiar

While she traveled with her former husband of 24 years, Erik van Dillen, on the Grand Prix tennis circuit during his time as number one in the world in doubles with Stan Smith, to Davis Cup ties and with her brother, winner of the French Open doubles in Paris 1976 and a Davis Cup player, Fred McNair.

Laurent Lamothe

His elder brother, Ruben, served as captain of the Haitian Davis Cup tennis team for some time.

Logie Awards of 1959

:ABC Melbourne's Sporting Department for their coverage of events such as the Davis Cup, Test Cricket and the Australian Tennis Open

Mabel Brookes

With chapters on tennis by Sir Norman Brookes, her husband and 1907 and 1914 winner of the Wimbledon singles and doubles tennis tournament, and America's Davis Cup.

Meridian Plantation

Davis also founded the tennis world's prestigious Davis Cup.

Mount Royal Tennis Club

The Mount Royal Tennis Club has been the most used venue for Canada hosting Davis Cup ties.

Norm L. Oliver

Also a talented tennis player, there was a possibility of a future Davis Cup appearance.

Paul-Henri Spaak

During the same period, Spaak was also a tennis star, and played for the Belgian team in the 1922 Davis Cup.

Percy Colquhoun

In 1909 Colquhoun was president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, and refereed Sydney's first Davis Cup challenge round final.

Tennis Channel Open

In April 2008, The Tennis Channel announced that it was selling the tournament to the ATP, and the week the event had been held is now the first week of Davis Cup.

Tennis score

The best of five set format is typically only played in the Men's singles matches at Majors and Davis Cup matches.

The Green Men

Sully and the Force were both also seen at the Davis Cup during the 2012 games when Canada had lost against France in Vancouver.

Thierry Roussel

His maternal uncles are the veteran Davis Cup tennis player Jean-Noël Grinda and Olivier Grinda.


Akhtar Ali

He was the member of the Indian team that reached the final of Davis Cup in 1967.

Sport in Paraguay

The Paraguay Davis Cup team competed in its first Davis Cup in 1931, and their best result was reaching the quarterfinals in 1983-85 and again in 1987.

Taco Bell Arena

It is the site of the 2013 second-round tie of the tennis Davis Cup between the United States and Serbia.

Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel has extensive coverage of the Davis Cup, Fed Cup and Hopman Cup as well as other tournaments throughout the year.

Tennis in Australia

In the 1950s, Australia became a tennis power, and Australian men won the Davis Cup 15 times from 1950 to 1967, led by outstanding players such as Frank Sedgman, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Roy Emerson, and Ashley Cooper.

Tennis male players statistics

Another example is John Bromwich, the best Australian player, who was prevented by Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, from playing Wimbledon three consecutive years (1938, 1939, 1946) because Brookes' priority was to win the Davis Cup.

Thomas Cup

The Thomas Cup competition was the idea of Sir George Alan Thomas, a highly successful English badminton player of the early 1900s, who was inspired by tennis's Davis Cup, and football's (soccer's) World Cup first held in 1930.

Wayne Wong

Wayne is a member of the Hong Kong, China Davis Cup team, he debut for Hong Kong at age 15 years 332 days in a reverse singles dead rubber against Thailand in an Asia/Oceania Zone Group II First Round tie at Victoria Park in February 1997.