The Regulator Posted April 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Not having a clue what the old hidden text trick is I assume that means its Steve Davies, but why? Steve Davis, The Davis Cup was invented by a bloke who went to Harvard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest efctaxi Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Steve Davis, The Davis Cup was invented by a bloke who went to Harvard Dear God , please never let Jimmy leave us again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Regulator Posted April 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Dear God , please never let Jimmy leave us again pfft <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest efctaxi Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 pfft <_< Lol The tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who wished to challenge the British to a tennis competition. Once their respective lawn tennis associations agreed, one of the four Harvard players, Dwight F. Davis, designed a tournament format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low, purchasing it from his own funds. They in turn commissioned a classically-styled design from William B. Durgin's of Concord, New Hampshire, crafted by the Englishman Rowland Rhodes[2]. Davis went on to become a prominent politician in the United States in the 1920s, serving as US Secretary of War from 1925-29 and as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1929-32. The first match, between the United States and Great Britain was held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900. The American team, of which Dwight Davis was a part, surprised the British by winning the first three matches. The following year the two countries did not compete but the US won the next match in 1902. By 1905 the tournament expanded to include Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia, a combined team from Australia and New Zealand that competed together until 1914. The tournament was initially titled the International Lawn Tennis Challenge although it soon became known as the Davis Cup, after Dwight Davis' trophy. From 1950 to 1967, Australia dominated the competition, winning the Cup 15 times in 18 years. The United States has won the event the most times (32), followed by Australia (24 [28 including Australasia]), France and Great Britain (9 each)[includes 5 for the British Isles], Sweden (7), and Australasia (4). Up until 1973, the Davis Cup had only ever been won by the United States, Great Britain, France and Australia/Australasia. This dominance is what led each of the 4 nations to host a Grand Slam. Their domination was eventually broken in 1974, when South Africa and India qualified for the final. India refused to play in the final that year in protest against the South African government's apartheid policies, thus handing South Africa a walk-over victory. (As of 2008, South Africa has never actually played a single Davis Cup finals match.) The following year saw the first final actually being played, again between two "outsider" nations, with Sweden beating Czechoslovakia 3-2, and since then, several other countries have gone on to capture the trophy. On the 100th anniversary of the tournament's founding, 129 nations competed for the Davis Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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