Estonia at the 2000 Davis Cup

Introduction

The Davis Cup was started on one summer day in August at the Boston�s Longwood Cricket Club in 1900. The Davis Cup is the largest annual international competition in which there is battle between the players of two nations for supremacy. The Davis Cup tournaments are contested by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) between teams of players from nations in the knockout format. Initially these tournaments were known by the name International Lawn Tennis Challenge but were renamed as Davis Cup in 1945. The 2000 Davis Cup was the 89th edition of this prestigious tournament.

In the 2000 Davis Cup total of 135 nations had participated. The zones were Americas Zone, Asia/Oceania Zone and Europe/Africa Zone. The World Group consisted of a four-round knockout tournament. Each of regional zones was divided into four groups. Group I and Group II played knockout tournaments. Group III and IV played round-robin tournaments with promotion and relegation. El Salvador at the 2000 Davis Cup competed in the American Zone. It was included in Group II. The team of El Salvador was as follows:

Mait Kunnap
Alti Vahkal
Andrei Luzgin
Gert Vilms

Countries at the 2000 Davis Cup

The countries that participated in the Davis Cup along with Estonia in the group II of the Euro/African zone were as follows: Bulgaria, Cote D�Ivoire, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey.

Participation and Performance of Estonia in the 2000 Davis Cup:

Estonia at the 2000 Davis Cup played matches against Egypt and Poland. On 30th April Poland was against Estonia. In the first match R.Busch of Estonia defeated B.Dabrowski of Poland. In the second match, K.Pfeiffer of Poland defeated M.Kunnap of Estonia. In the doubles match, M.Matkowski and R.Nijaki of Poland defeated M.Kunnap and A.Vahkal of Estonia. In the fourth match, B.Dabrowski of Poland defeated A.Vahkal of Estonia. M.Matkowski of Poland defeated R.Busch of Estonia in the sets by 6-2, 3-6 and 6-1. On 23rd July Estonia played matches against Egypt in the Playoffs stage. Estonia put up dominant performance and defeated Egypt by 5-0. G.Vilms of Estonia defeated K.Maamoun of Egypt in the sets by 7-6, 6-2 and 6-4. In the second match, A.Luzgin of Estonia defeated H.Hemeda of Egypt in the straight sets by 6-7, 7-5, 6-2 and 6-2. The Doubles match was won by M.Kunnap and A.Vahkal of Estonia defeating H.Hemeda and M.Zewar of Egypt. In the fourth match, A.Luzgin of Estonia defeated K.Maamoun of Egypt in the sets by 6-4 and 7-6(5). In the fifth match, M.Kunnap from Estonia defeated M.Zewar of Egypt in the straight sets by 3-6, 6-4 and 6-3. Thus all the matches of this round were won by the team of Estonia.

Here�s a summary of the performance of Estonia at the 2000 Davis Cup

Overall, performance of Estonia at the 2000 Davis Cup was average.