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Lesotho Davis Cup team

national sports team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ1349863 ↗
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The Lesotho Davis Cup team represents Lesotho in the Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Lesotho Lawn Tennis Association. They have not competed since 2001.

History

Lesotho competed in its first Davis Cup in 2000. Their best result was finishing fourth in their Group IV pool in both 2000 and 2001.

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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—2001, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lesotho, Davis and team providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lesotho 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.