Netherlands Davis Cup Tennis Team

The Netherlands team made its debut in the Davis Cup in 1920 . In 1925, the Dutch team managed to reach the finals of the European zone of the tournament for applicants, where it lost to the French team , where at that time three of the four “musketeers” - Rene Lacoste , Jean Borotra and Jacques Bruñon played ^[1] . Three years later, the Dutch reached the semi-finals of the European zone, losing to the Czechs there.

In the postwar years, the Dutch team for a long time remained outside the group of the strongest national teams in the world, usually losing already in the first or second round of the European zone. In the first half of the 80s, her game improved, but not enough to get into the recently created World Group, where the tennis elite performed. The Netherlands were closest to entering the World Group in 1981, when the USSR national team stopped them in the final of the European group. Only in 1989 did the first ever Dutch team enter the World Group after winning the playoffs over the former Dutch colony - Indonesia. The Netherlands spent most of the 90s and the first half of the next decade in the World Group, only occasionally sinking back into the European-African. Their best result in the World Group was in 2001 reaching the semifinals after victories over the Spaniards and Germans . This success was ensured by the team Ramon Slater , Sheng Schalken , Jan Simerink and Paul Harkhuis ^[2] . Only in the semifinals did they lose to future champions - the French team.

Since 2007, the Netherlands national team has been playing mainly in the I European-African group, only twice (according to the results of 2008 and 2013) having managed to get into the World Group draw. During this time, the Dutch also fought three times for survival in the I European-African group - in 2007, 2010 and 2016.

Team

Dutch national team player Mihil Schapers and Soviet tennis player Andrei Chesnokov are co-owners of the Davis Cup record for the number of games in the set in singles - 46 ^[3] . This result was shown in the semifinals of the European Group in 1987; before that, the same number of games were played in the second set of the Dale Power - Alvaro Betancourt match in 1975 ^[4] .

• The first year of participation - 1920
• Played Seasons - 91
  • Of these, in the World Group - 19
• Best result - 1/2 finals (2001)
• The longest series of victories is 3 (4 times: 1927, 1928, 2000-2001, 2007-2008)
• The biggest victory - 5: 0 in games, 15: 0 in sets, 90:27 in games (   Netherlands -   Ireland , 1966)
• The longest match is 17 hours 10 minutes (   Ukraine -   Netherlands 2: 3, 2011 )
  • Most games in a match - 233 (   Ukraine -   Netherlands 2: 3, 2011)
• The longest game is 4 hours 55 minutes (   Sheng Schalken -   Nicolas Escudé 7-6 (3), 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-8, 2001)
  • The largest number of games in the game is 71 (   M. Stolyarov / I. Tlochinsky -   O. Kopman / F. Hugan 6-3, 15-17, 6-3, 3-6, 5-7, 1932)
• The largest number of games in the set is 46 (   Michil Schapers -   Andrey Chesnokov 22-24 , 6-1, 2-6, 2-6, 1987).

Players

• The most seasons in the national team - 16 ( Paul Harhuis )
• Most appearances - 27 (Paul Harhuis)
• The greatest number of games - 65 ( Hendrick Timmer , 43-22)
• Most wins - 43 (Hendrick Timmer, 43-22)
  • In singles - 32 (Hendrick Timmer, 32-15)
  • In doubles - 16 (Paul Harhuis, 16-10)
  • One pair consists of 7 (P. Harhuis / J. Elting 7–2, A. H. van Svol / I. Rinkel 7–3)
• The youngest player - 16 years 357 days ( Eric Wilborts , June 12, 1981)
• The oldest player - 41 years 170 days ( Christian van Lennep , June 22, 1928)

• Timo de Bakker
• Jean-Julien Royer
• Robin Hase

Captain: Jan Simerink

2018 World Group Round 1

World Group Playoffs , 2017

2nd Round of the I European-African Group, 2017

• Netherlands national tennis team in the Federation Cup

• Profile on the tournament website (eng.)