Argentina Davis Cup Team
| Argentina | |
|---|---|
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| Captain | Daniel Orsanic |
| ITF ranking | |
| Current ranking | 1  1
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| Highest ranking | 1 (28 November 2016) |
| First international | |
| 1921 | |
| World Group | |
| Appearances | 24 (39–23) |
| Best result | 1 (2016) |
| Runners-up | 4 (1981, 2006, 2008, 2011) |
| Player stats | |
| Most total wins | Guillermo Vilas (57–24) |
| Most singles wins | Guillermo Vilas (45–10) |
| Most doubles wins | David Nalbandian (16–5) |
| Best doubles team |
José Luis Clerc / Guillermo Vilas (7–7) |
| Most ties played | Guillermo Vilas (29) |
| Most years played | Guillermo Vilas (14) |
The Argentina Davis Cup team represents Argentina in Davis Cup tennis competition and is governed by the Asociación Argentina de Tenis. As of 2016, the team has competed in the World Group since 2002 and reached the finals five times (1981, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2016), winning the cup for the first time in the 2016 edition by defeating Croatia in the final. Argentina is currently #1 in the ITF Davis Cup rankings.
Argentina's Davis Cup debut in 1921 started on the wrong foot with a walkover loss to Denmark in the first round. They played their first Davis Cup matches in 1923, losing 1–4 in the first round against Switzerland. After several years of toiling in the regional and preliminary rounds, led by Guillermo Vilas and José Luis Clerc, Argentina reached their first finals in 1981, losing to the United States. After avoiding relegation from the World Group the next year, Argentina reached the semifinals in 1983, losing in against the Swedish team. In the subsequent years, Argentina couldn't repeat that performance and was relegated to the Americas I Group in 1987 and would not return to the World Group until the 2002 Davis Cup, reaching the semifinals again in a loss to Russia that included a historical doubles match between Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin against David Nalbandian and Lucas Arnold Ker that at 6 hours and 20 minutes is the longest doubles match in recorded history. Since 2002, Argentina has reached the finals on four occasions in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2016. They were crowned as champions for the first time after defeating Croatia in the final in 2016.
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