Zimbabwe Davis Cup team

The Zimbabwe men's national tennis team represents Zimbabwe in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Zimbabwe Tennis Association. Zimbabwe currently competes in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II. They last competed in the World Group in 2000.

Zimbabwe competed in its first Davis Cup in 1963, as Rhodesia in the European Zone. They defeated the Netherlands before they lost to Sweden in the second round. In the next two years they got through to the second round of European qualifying. After skipping the 1966 and 1967 edition, they returned to the 1968 edition with protests in the original scheduled venue at Båstad as they had to move it to a neutral location in Southern France.^[1] Despite this, did not go on to win a match in two years before taking a break, which would be until 1976 where they were supposed to take on Ireland but after withdrawing from that edition, they lost to Switzerland 3-2.

In the 1983 edition, they took on Turkey in the opening round of Zone B in the European Draw. After knocking over Turkey, they would lose to the Hungarians at home in the second round of the zone.^[2] In 1988, the team moved to Group II where at home they would take out the Group II division as they defeated Egypt to qualify to the top group in Europe. After staying in the Europe division for six years, they had the opportunity to go into the World Group for the first time against the Czech Republic.^[3] They would lose to the Czech Republic, before getting into the playoff again in 1997, this time they would win over Austria to qualify through to the World Group for the first time.^[4]

Al comenzar la edición de 1998, se esperaba que perdieran contra Australia en Mildura. Wayne Black y Byron Black sorprendieron al mundo al ganar los partidos individuales de vuelta para llevarse la eliminatoria por 3-2 y protagonizar la gran sorpresa de esa ronda. ^{[ 5 ]} Sin embargo, en los cuartos de final perdieron 5-0 contra el equipo italiano, registrando el mejor resultado del país en una Copa Davis. ^{[ 6 ]}

• Benjamin Lock
• Mehluli Don Ayanda Sibanda
• Courtney John Lock
• Benedict Badza ( jugador junior )

• Copa Davis
• Equipo de Zimbabue para la Copa Billie Jean King
• Zimbabue en la Copa Hopman

• Página del equipo en la Copa Davis (archivada)