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Duration | 2 March – 27 November |
Edition | 105th |
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Winning Nation | Argentina |
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The 2016 Davis Cup was the 105th edition of the Davis Cup, a tournament between national teams in men's tennis. It was sponsored by BNP Paribas. From this season's tournament the deciding set of each match would be settled by a tiebreak at 6 games all rather than playing an advantage set until a player or a team were two games clear.Argentina won their first Davis Cup title, after 4 runner-up finishes, defeating Croatia in the final. Federico Delbonis defeated Ivo Karlović in the final match to give Argentina its first Davis Cup title, after a huge comeback from Juan Martín del Potro against Marin Čilić in the fourth match.
Date: 16–18 September
The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I final round ties competed in the World Group Play-offs for spots in the 2017 World Group.
Seeded teams
Unseeded teams
Seeds: All seeds received a bye into the second round.
Remaining nations:
Seeds:
Remaining nations:
Date: 11–16 July
Location: La Paz, Bolivia (clay)
Confirmed teams:
Inactive teams:
Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four and five teams, respectively (Pools A and B). The winner of each pool plays off against the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations are promoted to Americas Zone Group II in 2017.
Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 7 March 2016 (shown in parentheses below).
Group A
Group B
Play-Offs
Bolivia and Bahamas promoted to Group II in 2017.