General info

Davis Cup is considered to be the main Team competition in men tennis for more than one hundred years.The award for the winner is the magnificent silver cup - Davis Cup Trophy, which was presented to the organizers of the first match in 1900 by the student of Harvard University Dwight Davis. This Trophy consists of four parts - a silver cup and three wooden bases. The total weight of the Davis Cup Trophy is more than 70 kg.

In the first years the only two countries to compete for the Trophy were the USA and Great Britain. Before the First World War six more national teams joined them. They were: France, Belgium, Austria, Australia, Germany and Canada.

The tie of two teams consists of five games: four singles and one doubles matches to be held during three days. In the opening day the second numbers of meeting teams play vs. first numbers, on the second day only one doubles play is held and at last on the final day the first and second numbers play vs. each other. All matches consist of five sets and in the fifth one they play without a tiebreak. This way of holding the matches is considered by the organizers to be the best one to increase the staginess of competition in order to keep an intrigue of a play up to the last game.

Sixteen teams of the World Group are competing for the main award - "Davis Cup Trophy". During the year the Davis Cup winner has to participate in four ties which are held from March till December. At the level below the World Group there are teams participating in Zonal Competitions. Nowadays there are three zones: Europe/Africa, the USA, Asia/Oceania; there are four groups in each zone. Eight winners in first Zonal Groups play in September vs. eight World Group teams, which failed in the First Round, to participate next year in the World Group.


The Argentine team holds the position number 5 in the current Davis Cup by BNP Paribas ranking.  Argentina finished runner-up in 1981, 2006 and 2008, but is yet to lift the trophy.
The Argentine team lost to Russian team in 2006 Moscow final. Since 1985 to 2008 Argentina met with Russia (USSR) five times and in two оf these ties it won.