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The premier international team event in men's tennis is the Davis Cup. Run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) it can stake a claim to be the biggest annual international team competition in sports. The Davis Cup is contested between player's teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. Funnily the competition began in the year 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. Want a piece of the action, register with http://watchtennisonline.net to watch Davis cup Tennis 2010 online.

The current Champions are Spain while the United States have won the competition 32 times while Australia have done it 28 times. Conceived in 1899 the tournament by four members of the Harvard University tennis team, their intention was to challenge the British to a tennis competition. Consent granted by the their respective lawn tennis associations, one of the four Harvard players, Dwight F. Davis, designed the tournament format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver designed by William B. Durgin's of Concord, New Hampshire. Davis moved in to politics and soon became a prominent politician in the United States in the 1920s, and the tournament was named after him. The Davis Cup is formatted in such a way that the member countries are distributed in to zones. While the World Group is top of the ladder and teams in it play on a knock out basis. Entry to the World Group is determined by winners of the Group One in each zone playing against the losers of the first round in the World Group.

Below the World Group are the Four Zones, with each of these zones having four groups or levels. The groups 1 and 2 play a knock-out competition while the lower two are involved with a round robin competition. The winners of each group move to the one above, while the losers are relegated to the group below. There are two notable exceptions: Group Four countries are not relegated since there is no group to relegate to, and as stated above Group One winners play-off against losers of the World Group first round to decide who will be participate in the World Group the following. Remember to watch Davis cup Tennis 2010 online.

Sixteen teams will face off over the 5-7th March weekend to decide which of the eight teams move into the next round - the quarter finals - of the World Group. The first-round of the 2010 Davis Cup is rapidly approaching, and the ITF has released the names of the players for each squad. Prominent by their absence for their respective Nations are the following players: Roger Federer (Switzerland), Rafael Nadal (Spain), Fernando Verdasco (Spain), Andy Roddick (United States), Andy Murray (Great Britain), Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina), and David Nalbandian (Argentina).

The quarter finals are scheduled to be played between the 9th -11th of July this year. Four of these teams will qualify to play in the semi finals which begin on the 17th of September and last three days. The Finals will be played starting on 3rd December 2010 the venue of course dependent on the participating teams. Remember to watch Davis cup Tennis 2010 online at http://watchtennisonline.net.

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