Last weekend the first round of Davis Cup, 2012 was played. Basically, a country takes its top male pros and forms a team. 5 matches are played using 4 different players. There are 2 singles matches, a doubles match, and 2 reverse singles match (same players compete but swap singles opponents).
The Davis Cup started in 1900, and is now the world’s largest annual international team competition. This year's event takes place over 4 weekends (February 10-12 First Round, April 6–8 Quarterfinals, Sept 14–16 Semifinals, November 16–18 Final .130 nations entered in 2011.The World Group has the top 16 teams competing in knock out elimination.
The remaining teams are put into regional zone groups. Upon achieving good results, the lower teams can get future promotion into a higher Zone Group or The World Group. The US has won 32 titles and Australia 28. In 2011 Spain beat Argentina for the title. For many pros it is a national honor to play. They are financially compensated.
The world group has the following ranked teams:
1) Spain 2) Serbia 3) Argentina 4) France 5) Czech Republic, 6) USA 7) Croatia, 8) Russia 9) Germany 10) Kazakhstan 11) Israel 12) Sweden 13) Italy, 14) Canada 15) Switzerland, 16) Austria.
Here is the draw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Davis_Cup
After this weekend, Spain, Austria, France, USA, Czech Rep, Croatia, Serbia and Argentina, all advanced to the quarterfinals ( played April 6th)
The US had a good 5-0 victory over Switzerland. Go USA!! They next face France in the quarterfinals, in April. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!!
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