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Introduction
Davis Cup is regarded as the largest annual international tennis event that is held in the sport of tennis. It started as a challenge between Great Britain and United States. Then it gradually spread to other parts of the world. Thus nations from other parts of the world also started taking participating in it. Gradually its popularity also increased and nowadays it is regarded as the premier international tennis tournament that is held only for Mens. This tournament is governed by the International Tennis Federation, which also frames most of the rules of this tournament. This tournament was dominated by Australia, United States and some other nations in its earlier stages. But after 1974 this western domination was broken and other nations also started winning this tournament. Being the 84th edition of this tournament there were a total of 15 teams all over the world that too part in this tournament. Bangladesh at the 1995 Davis Cup was one of the participants.
Performance of Bangladesh at the 1995 Davis Cup
Bangladesh at the 1995 Davis Cup participated from the Asia Zone. It participated in the Group III of the Asia zone. Bangladesh played a total of five Round Robin matches against five teams. In the first round it defeated Jordan by a score line of 3-0. In the second round it defeated United Arab Emirates by a score line of 3-0. In the Third round it defeated Pacific Oceania by a score line of 2-1. In the fourth round it got defeated by Saudi Arabia. The score line was 0-3. However in the fifth round it won against Lebanon by a score line of 2-1.
Here’s a summary of the performance of Bangladesh at the 1995 Davis Cup
Bangladesh at the 1995 Davis Cup gave a very good performance. However it was not successful in qualifying to the Group III of this zone for the next year.
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