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Colombia Davis Cup team

national sports team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1490537 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Colombia men's national tennis team represents Colombia in the Davis Cup and is governed by the Federación Colombiana de Tenis.

Colombia currently competes in the David Cup Finals, formerly known as the World Group. In 2018, they have reached the Play-offs to the World Group for the sixth time.

For the first time in its history, Colombia advanced to the World Group, winning 4–0 to Sweden in the Play-off in 2019 Davis Cup.

History

Colombia competed in its first Davis Cup in 1959 Davis Cup.

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“Colombia Davis Cup team” enters the record as national sports team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Colombia, Davis and team can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2019, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Colombia, Davis and team.
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This entry incorporates text from “Colombia Davis Cup team” 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.