Zimbabwe at the 1991 Davis Cup

The Davis cup tournament Tennis took birth as a competition between United States and Great Britain. United States has always ruled the roost with its incredible performance with 31 wins and Australia being the second best. The Davis cup tournament Tennis, managed by the International Tennis Federation, has always been known for its class par excellence. The 1991 Davis Cup was the 80th edition of this world renowned tennis championship. Teams advanced from the previous year’s qualifiers to the World group round, where they played against first round losing teams from the World Group. A total of 87 teams participated in the tournament.

Zimbabwe at the 1991 Davis Cup was placed in the Africa zone. Other nations in this pool were Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. The stakes were very high for highly ranked teams performing to the best of their ability and talent. The Zimbabwean chances became feeble and ultimately null when it failed to win against Kenya and thus was ousted from the tournament.

Zimbabwe at the 1991 Davis Cup was placed in the Africa zone with nations like Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. All the participants looked in extremely fine mental and physical shape. Zimbabwe lost its deciding qualifying match to Kenya by a dismal 1-4. Zimbabwe was pretty weak and awful with its approach which could not capitalize on their weaknesses and continued to sink in the oceans of gloomy defeat. Thus poor approach combined with amateurish talent capsized the boat of Zimbabwean tennis quest at the 1991 Davis Cup.