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Introduction
Davis Cup is a tennis tournament that is held only for Mens. This tournament found its conception in a challenge between Great Britain and United States. Four tennis players of the Harvard University conceived this idea 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. The 1995 Davis Cup was the 84th edition of this tournament. Amongst the 115 nations that participated Italy at the 1995 Davis Cup was one of the prominent participants.
Performance of Italy at the 1995 Davis Cup
Italy at the 1995 Davis Cup participated from the World Group. It qualified for the same in the previous year of the tournament so it directly participated from the World Group this year. In the first round it competed against Czech Republic. It defeated Czech Republic by a score line of 4-1 and advanced to the second round of the World Group. In the quarterfinal round it competed against the United States and lost to it. United States completely dominated the round and defeated Italy by a score line of 5-0. Thus Italy was out of the tournament for this year because of the knock out policy followed by Davis Cup.
Here’s a summary of the performance of Italy at the 1995 Davis Cup
Italy at the 1995 Davis Cup gave a satisfactory performance. It'd story ended very soon in the quarterfinal round. However it didn't lose its current position so it retained its current World Group position for the next year of the tournament.
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