Sweden Davis Cup team

Sweden Davis Cup team

DavisCupinfobox
Name = Sweden



Nickname =
Captain = Mats Wilander
Coach =
ITF Rank = 6
ITF max =
ITF max date =
ITF min =
ITF min date =
Colors = yellow & blue
First year = 1925
Years played = 74
Ties played = 208 (142-66)
WG played = 26 (54-19)
Titles = 7
Runners-up = 5
Best =
Player wins = Ulf Schmidt (66-36)
Singles wins = Jan-Erik Lundquist (47-16)
Doubles wins = Sven Davidson (23-9)
Best doubles = Ulf Schmidt and Jan-Erik Lundquist (16-8)
Most ties = Ulf Schmidt (38)
Most years = Ove Bengtson (13)
Stefan Edberg (13)
Jonas Björkman (13)

The Sweden Davis Cup team represents Sweden in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Svenska Tennisförbundet.

Sweden is the 5th most successful nation, winning the title 7 times. 6 of these titles were since the creation of the World Group in 1981, the most of any nation during this period.

Sweden played in the World Group in all but one year since it was created in 1981, sharing this record with Australia, United States and Czech Republic. With 53 wins (as of February 2007), Sweden hold the record for most wins in the World Group.

Current Team

* Robin Söderling (ATP #39)
* Jonas Björkman (ATP #60)
* Thomas Johansson (ATP #62)
* Robert Lindstedt (ATP Doubles #36)

History

Sweden entered their first competition in 1925.

ee also

*Davis Cup

External links


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