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Which sport’s competition is known as the “Davis Cup”?

Which sport’s competition is known as the “Davis Cup”? Correct Answer Tennis 

The correct answer is Tennis.

Key Points

  • The Davis Cup
    • It is the premier international team event in men's tennis. Hence, Option 1 is correct.
    • It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Kosmos Holding and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format
    • The Davis Cup, the tennis equivalent of the football World Cup, was named after American collegian Dwight Filley Davis, who came up with the idea to start a challenge tennis match between the USA and Great Britain. 
    • First played in 1900, it was originally called the International Lawn Tennis Trophy.
    • Davis came up with a three-day format for the event that is still in practice: two singles match on the first and third days and a doubles match on the second day.
    • Now, it is a team knock-out tournament played over the course of a year.
    • The competition has grown from just two competing nations to 142. 
    • But only the top 16 nations - known as the World Group - can actually win the Davis Cup. 
    • The others are split into three groups with promotion to and relegation from each. 
    • Their main target is to make it into the World Group.
    • India has not qualified for the elite World Group since their 4-1 defeat to Serbia in 2011. 
    • India first participated in the tournament in 1921 and has been involved in 191 fixtures winning 114 and losing 77. 
    • Leander Paes has been credited with the most number of wins, standing tall at 89. India has reached the Davis Cup finals on three occasions - 1966, 1974, and 1987.
    • In 1966, the Indian team comprising Ramanathan Krishnan and Jaideep Mukerjea succumbed to the mighty Australians after having beaten Brazil and erstwhile West Germany in the prior rounds. 
    • In 1974, Vijay Amritraj beat the legendary Bjorn Borg, and Anand Amritraj also went on to collect two doubles titles. 
    • The Indian team of Vijay, Anand, and Jasjit Singh guided India past some tricky fixtures against Australia and the Soviet Union to make it to the finals against South Africa. 
    • India was touted as one of the strongest contenders but refused to participate in the finals as a mark of disapproval of the South African government's apartheid policies.

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