Austrian Davis Cup team

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Austria
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captain Stefan Koubek
Current ITF ranking 21st
statistics
First participation 1905
Davis Cup participations 83
of which in world group 17th
best result HF (1990)
Eternal balance 72:83
Most successful players
Most wins overall Thomas Muster (45)
Most individual wins Thomas Muster (36)
Most double victories Alexander Antonitsch (13)
Best double Thomas Muster / Alexander Antonitsch (9)
Most participations Jürgen Melzer (33)
Most of the years Jürgen Melzer (19)
Last update of the info box: January 24th, 2018

The Austrian Davis Cup team is the Austrian national tennis team that is used in the Davis Cup . The Davis Cup is the most important competition for national teams in men's tennis, analogous to the Fed Cup for women.

Current team

The following players were used in the Davis Cup 2017 :

facts and figures

Since 1905 Austria has participated in the Davis Cup 83 times with interruptions , the last interruption being more than 60 years ago ( 1947 ). The team won 72 times in 155 races. The player with the most wins (45 wins, 18 losses) and single wins (36 wins, 8 losses) is Thomas Muster , the most successful doubles player is Alexander Antonitsch (13-14).

The best result in Austria's Davis Cup history was reaching the semi-finals in 1990 , where they lost 3-2 at home to the US Davis Cup team in the Ernst Happel Stadium . In the recent past, reaching the first world group quarter-finals since 1995 is noteworthy in 2012 .

Trainer

The following table contains the previous supervisors of the Davis Cup team since 1962:

Trainer Beginning of the first international match End of the last international match
Walter water bird 1962 1967
Kurt Schwendenwein 1968 1980
Peter Pokorny 1981 1982
Michael Wrann 1983 1988
Filip Krajcik 1989 1991
Günter Bresnik 1992 1993
Ronnie Leitgeb 1994 1997
Günter Bresnik April 3, 1998 February 8, 2004
Thomas Muster September 24, 2004 September 24, 2006
Gilbert Schaller February 9, 2007 September 18, 2011
Clemens Trimmel February 10, 2012 September 14, 2014
Stefan Koubek since January 30, 2015

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. DAVIS CUP: Clemens Trimmel is the new captain of Melzer & Co. , Kleine Zeitung, October 28, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2017