Professional sports , including tennis, have a clear goal, to make money . If it is true that also seeks
to add trophies, grow in the rankings and
become famous , but all as a way to have more sponsors , play in
tournaments and the top end ... earn more and more money. But there is a small glimmer of hope that keeps the essence of pure sport . A
cup where the individual is shelved for teamwork ... and not the 4 or 5
players that form but of the millions of people living in a nation and
these athletes delegated the responsibility to defend his jersey , no
prize without individual fame. This is the Davis Cup.
The Davis Cup is an international tennis competition , organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF ) . Unlike
most tennis events worldwide, in the Davis Cup players involved not
individually , but national teams for various players nominated by their
national federation sports . The Davis Cup , held since 1900 , is a men-only tournament , with the Fed Cup equivalent for female players .It is the largest annual sporting event counting with 125 existing different national teams during its 2010 edition . The exercise is champion Czech Republic won its second title in the competition after winning the 2012 Davis Cup 3-2 to Spain .
A little history . The Davis Cup is named after its creator, Dwight Filley Davis , tennis player and politician
born in 1879 . Davis
conceived the idea of creating a national team competition in which
the best U.S. will face a team from the British Isles. The
first meeting was prepared in 1905 at the Longwood Cricket Club in
Brookline , just outside Boston , winning the British Americans 3-0 . Davis
, who played with the U.S. team , donated the money for the development
of a silver cup , to a design by Rowland Rhodes based on a punch bowl
topped with flower ornaments 33 cm high and 43 cm in diameter. Inside
this bowl was recorded misnamed the tournament name " International
Lawn Tennis Challenge Trophy" , and in his left side listed the names of
the participants. The
competition had an unexpected 
continuity and from 1945 , the year he
died Davis ( November 28 ) , was renamed the Davis Cup .The custom of record names Cup finalists and winners , and the fact that it is delivered in property missing soon made room for new entries . In 1921 , Davis won a silver tray of 95 cm in diameter punch bowl base , which were recorded by the end of 1921-1933 . When it was full , they built a wooden base with name plates continued enrollment of 34 editions . In 1969 it was necessary to add a second base, wider than space available until 2002 , when it added a third .
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