davis cup tennis

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davis cup tennis

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Davis Cup Tennis a brief history:

105-year history of the Davis Cup, the largest annual international team competition in world sport.

There are some excellent written histories of the davis cup tennis available, which include:
The Story of the davis cup , by Alan Trengove, Stanley Paul, 1985.
Dwight Davis: The Man and the Cup, by Nancy Kriplen, Ebury Press, 1999.

The Professionalization of Tournament Tennis :

In 1900 the international team competition known as the Davis Cup tournament began. Along with the Wightman Cup (begun 1923), an annual tournament between British and American women's teams, the davis cup tennis helped to focus international attention on tennis. In 1963, a women's Davis Cup equivalent, the Federation Cup, usurped the prestige of the Wightman Cup. In the first decades of the 1900s tennis was primarily a sport of the country club set. The widespread construction of courts on school and community playgrounds in the 1930s (many built by the federal government's New Deal agencies) helped to make davis cup more accessible to the public.

The continued defection of amateur players into the professional ranks was one of the factors that led amateur tennis's world governing body, the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF, founded 1913), to open its tournaments to both professionals and amateurs in 1968.

Rules and Equipment

Lawn tennis was originally played on grass courts, but most major events are now played on courts of hard, composite materials; exceptions include Wimbledon, played on grass, and the French Open, played on clay. In singles play the court measures 78 ft by 27 ft (23.8 m by 8.2 m). The court is divided in half by a net 3 ft (91 cm) high in the middle and 3.5 ft (1.1 m) high at the end posts. On either side of the net lie the forecourts, each of which contains two adjacent service courts measuring 21 ft by 13.5 ft (6.4 m by 4.1 m) each.

Only in the deciding set of major championship matches outside the United States is the original two-game margin of victory retained. The best two out of three sets wins most professional matches; the best three out of five sets wins a late-round match in men's play in major championships. An umpire calls play, and in important matches a net judge, foot-fault judges, and linesmen often assist.

WINSTON-SALEM - Andy Roddick and James Blake dominated Friday to give the United States a 2-0 lead over Spain in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. 2007

USA's James Blake reacts after winning his Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal tennis match against Spain's Tommy Robredo in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, April 6, 2007.

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