Latest Davis Cup National Ranking

Written by: Staff on 15th September 2011

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Latest Davis Cup Nations Ranking (11 July 2011)

1	Spain	11	Sweden
2	Serbia	12	Croatia
3	France	13	Chile
4	Argentina	14	India
5	Czech Republic	15	Austria
6	USA	16	Switzerland
7	Russia	17	Romania
8	Germany	18	Belgium
9	Kazakhstan	19	Italy
10	Israel	20	Australia

There are a total of 130 nations entered to try to win the 2011 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas.

CHOICE OF GROUND – WORLD GROUP FINAL

The Davis Cup Final will take place on 2-4 December. Below is the choice of ground for all potential match-ups. The venue details are due to be submitted to the ITF by the beginning of October.

Possible Final	Venue
SERBIA v SPAIN	SRB
SERBIA v FRANCE	FRA
ARGENTINA v SPAIN	ESP
ARGENTINA v FRANCE	ARG

PAST CHAMPIONS

In total, 13 nations have won the Davis Cup.

USA 32

Australia 28

France, Great Britain 9

Sweden 7

Spain 4

Germany 3

Russia 2

Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Serbia, South Africa 1

WORLD GROUP PLAY-OFFS

Romania v Czech Republic (s) Centrul National De Tenis, Bucharest (clay – outdoors)

(s) Russia v Brazil Kazan Tennis Academy, Kazan (hard – indoors)

(s) Israel v Canada Canada Stadium, Ramat Hasharon (hard – outdoors)

South Africa v Croatia (s) Fanie Du Toit Sports Stadium, Potchefstroom (hard – outdoors)

(s) Chile v Italy Estadio Nacional, Santiago (hard – outdoors)

Japan v India (s) Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo (hard – outdoors)

Belgium v Austria (s) Lotto Arena, Antwerp (hard – indoors)

Australia v Switzerland (s) Royal Sydney Golf Club, Sydney (grass – outdoors)

(s) = seed

Czech Republic are looking to protect their record of only having been absent from the World Group once since its inception in 1981. Along with Sweden and USA, the Czechs have been present in the World Group for 30 of its 31 years. Their opponents, Romania, are making their 6th straight appearance in the play-offs. Their only loss in a play-off in that time came against Sweden in 2009.

Russia have played in the World Group every year since 1993. The 2002 and 2006 champions will be looking to continue that streak of World Group appearances. Brazil are looking to return to the World Group for the first time since 2003. They have lost at this stage of the competition for the last 5 years.

Neither Israel nor Canada competed in the World Group 1st round this year, so both remain undefeated in 2011. Israel, who reached the World Group semifinals in 2009, are looking to reach the top tier for the 10th time, while Canada have only made 3 previous World Group appearances.

South Africa have not been in the World Group since 1998. Conversely, Croatia have only been absent from the World Group once since making their debut in 2002.

Italy has a perfect record against Chile and even defeated the South American team to claim their only Davis Cup title in 1976. Chile have been in the World Group play-offs for 6 of the last 8 years. Italy are looking to return to the World Group for the first time since 2000.

The only all-Asian clash in the World Group play-offs sees two teams who have played each other 21 times in the past. India hold an 18-3 advantage over Japan but have not won on Japanese soil since 2001.

This is the 9th successive year that Austria have been in the World Group play-offs and their only loss in a play-off in that time was against Chile in 2009. The odds are stacked in their favour against Belgium, having played and won all 4 of their previous encounters.

This is Switzerland’s 7th consecutive World Group play-off tie. Last year the Swiss team lost 5-0 to Kazakhstan at this stage and are faced with an Australian team under a new captain looking to return to the World Group for the first time since 2007.