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Introduction
Davis Cup started found its roots in a challenge that was set between Great Britain and United States. Davis Cup is regarded as the premier international tennis tournament that is held only for Mens. Four tennis players of the Harvard University conceived this tennis showdown in the year 1899. Amongst them Dwight F. Davis played a very important role in the development of the game. He actually designed the complete format of the game. Therefore formerly named as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge this game was renamed as the Davis Cup in the year 1945 in his honor. This tournament also follows the knock out policy like the other Grand Slam tournament but the format of the game is completely different. The 1995 Davis Cup was the 84th edition of this tournament. Amongst the 115 nations that participated Croatia at the 1995 Davis Cup was one of them.
Performance of Croatia at the 1995 Davis Cup
Croatia at the 1995 Davis Cup participated in the World Group. It was one of the nations in the World Group who had qualified in the previous year of this tournament. In the first round of World Group it contested against Germany. It was very easily defeated by Germany. Out of the five matches it was only able to win a single match and the rest four matches were won by Germany. Thus Germany defeated Croatia by a score line of 4-1. Then Croatia played the World Group Qualifying round. In this round it competed against India. It lost to India by a score line of 3-2.
Here’s a summary of the performance of Croatia at the 1995 Davis Cup
Croatia at the 1995 Davis Cup gave a very bad performance. Due to its bad performance it was relegated to the Group I for the 1996 Davis Cup.
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