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2008 Davis Cup World Group

2008 edition of the Davis Cup World Group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ740535 ↗
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The World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2008. The first-round losers went into the Davis Cup World Group play-offs, and the winners progress to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinalists were guaranteed a World Group spot for 2009.

Participating teams

Draw

First round

Russia vs. Serbia

Czech Republic vs. Belgium

Argentina vs. Great Britain

Israel vs. Sweden

Germany vs. South Korea

Peru vs. Spain

Romania vs.

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The public source identifies “2008 Davis Cup World Group” as 2008 edition of the Davis Cup World Group. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Davis, World and Group.

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This entry incorporates text from “2008 Davis Cup World Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.