Talk:Davis Cup
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[edit] Yearly performance
It is such a waste that the numbers and details with respect to a specific edition of the Davis Cup might be deleted or removed when a successive edition is held. Hence, these can be moved to its own page (i.e. "2004 Davis Cup" with all the related details), and be linked here through the years in the table. Joey80 05:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Participating Nations
I think it will be very clarifying to know when "new" countries were added to the competition. For the best part of the XX century only a handful of countries played the Davis Cup, hence the high numbers of winnings by USA and Australia, so the numbers alone, without some history, are somehow misleading. Also, up to 1972, the winner went directly to the finals of the following year... Nazroon 04:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Splitting/removing sections
I've proposed that giant table of winners be split into it's own article, similar to the list of Tour de France winners. I also think that the "recent finals" section needs to be deleted, as it's just a repeat of information on the individual years' pages. Chris 09:04, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Okay, so when did New Zealand join Australia?
Why does Australasia go to the Australian team. Australasia doesn't = Australia. Australia + New Zealand (a separate nation) = Australasia. Please fix this appalling issue. Thank you.
- The Australasian Team competed as a joint AUS/NZ team from 1905-13. The ITF counts Australasia's records under Australia (although Tony Wilding was one of the more successful of the team's players), just as Yugoslavia's records reside under Serbia, the Czechoslovakian records under the Czech Republic, and others. Fair or not, that's how the ITF does it. PS: Please sign your posts! Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 02:41, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes, politics is a problem for longrunning competitions like DC, I would prefer to have Czechoslovakia and Slovakia as one. RGDS Alexmcfire
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Davis Cup 1920 cropped.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Hoad and Rosewall with Davis Cup 1953.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Move Explanation of "Tie" to a New Article
The word "tie" is not unique to the Davis Cup but is used in almost all cup competitions to mean an elimination round in the cup competition.
Thereofre, I suggest that a new article be written for "Tie (cup competitions)" and that much of the explanation of the "tie" in the Davis Cup article be moved there. Oconnell usa (talk) 04:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
