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Italy Davis Cup team

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Current ranking
  
10

Best result
  
1 (1976)

Location
  
Italy

Appearances
  
24 (19–23)

Captain
  
Corrado Barazzutti

Italy Davis Cup team

Runners-up
  
6 (1960, 1961, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1998)

Most total wins
  
Nicola Pietrangeli (120–44)

Most singles wins
  
Nicola Pietrangeli (78–32)

The Italy Davis Cup team represents Italy in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Federazione Italiana Tennis.

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Italy won the Davis Cup in 1976, and finished as runners-up 6 times (1960, 1961, 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1998). They currently compete in the World Group. They last competed in the highest level in 2000, but winning 3-0 against Chile, on September 16, 2011, won again a pass for the World Group.

History

Italy competed in its first Davis Cup in 1922.

Current team (2016)

  • Fabio Fognini
  • Andreas Seppi
  • Simone Bolelli
  • Paolo Lorenzi
  • Marco Cecchinato (substituting Fabio Fognini).
  • Recent performances

    Here is the list of all match-ups since 1981, when the competition started being held in the current World Group format.

    References

    Italy Davis Cup team Wikipedia


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