Zimbabwe Davis Cup team
national sports team
The Zimbabwe men's national tennis team represents Zimbabwe in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Zimbabwe Tennis Association.
Zimbabwe currently competes in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II. They last competed in the World Group in 2000.
History
Beginnings
Zimbabwe competed in its first Davis Cup in 1963, as Rhodesia in the European Zone. They defeated the Netherlands before they lost to Sweden in the second round. In the next two years they got through to the second round of European qualifying. After skipping the 1966 and 1967 edition, they returned to the 1968 edition with protests in the original scheduled venue at Båstad as they had to move it to a neutral location in Southern France. Despite this, did not go on to win a match in two years before taking a break, which would be until 1976 where they were supposed to take on Ireland but after withdrawing from that edition, they lost to Switzerland 3-2.
World Group appearance
In the 1983 edition, they took on Turkey in the opening round of Zone B in the European Draw. After knocking over Turkey, they would lose to the Hungarians at home in the second round of the zone. In 1988, the team moved to Group II where at home they would take out the Group II division as they defeated Egypt to qualify to the top group in Europe.
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