World Team Cup

World Team Cup
World Team Cup
Tournament information
Founded	1975
Abolished	2012
Editions	34
Location	Düsseldorf; Germany
Venue	Rochusclub
Category	ATP World Tour 250 series
Surface	Clay / outdoors
Draw	8 teams (round-robin)
Prize money	US$1,764,700
Website	World-Team-Cup.com

The World Team Cup was the international men's team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The inaugural edition of the tournament was contested in 1975 in Kingston, Jamaica and was called the Nations Cup.^[1]^[2] No tournament was held in 1976 and 1977. From 1978 through 2012 the tournament was held annually in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was generally considered to be second most prestigious men's team competition in tennis after the Davis Cup.^{[citation needed]}

Every year, the eight nations whose top two male players have achieved the highest combined placings in the men's world rankings at the end of the previous year were invited to compete for the cup.^{[citation needed]}

The competition was played on clay courts in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event was generally regarded as the sports highlight of the social scene in the Düsseldorf area. It attracted around 75,000 visitors every year and was televised to over 160 countries.^{[citation needed]}

From 1978 to 1981 the tournament was held under the name "Ambre Solaire Nations Cup", from 1982 until 1986 it was named "Ambre Solaire World Team Cup", from 1987–1999 "Peugeot World Team Cup" and from 2000 the event's main sponsor until 2010 was the ARAG Insurance Group, and its sponsored name was the "ARAG World Team Cup".^[3]

After ARAG discontinued sponsorship for the event and organizers failed to find a new sponsor, the 2011 edition of the tournament was initially cancelled.^[4] However, a new sponsor — Power Horse — was found in January 2011 and the 2011 edition took place between May 15–21 under the name "Power Horse World Team Cup".^[5]

In October 2012 it was announced that the World Team Cup event would be discontinued and replaced by the Power Horse Cup, an ATP 250 tournament in Düsseldorf.^[6]^[7]

In September 2017 it was announced that there were plans to revive the tournament: the ATP had proposed a 24 team tournament to be played over 10 days at venues around Australia in January, which would offer 1000 ranking points to any player who won all their matches.^[8]

In January 2018 it was mooted to start in 2019 or 2020 with the backing from Tennis Australia,^[9] In the end, the ATP decided to launch the competition as the ATP Cup, a separate tournament to the World Team Cup, in 2020.^[10]

On 7 August 2022, Tennis Australia announced that the ATP Cup would be shut down, to be replaced by a mixed-gender United Cup from 2023.

Past finals

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1975	United States	Great Britain	2–1
1976	Not held
1977	Not held
1978	Spain	Australia	2–1
1979	Australia	Italy	2–1
1980	Argentina	Italy	3–0
1981	Czechoslovakia	Australia	2–1
1982	United States	Australia	2–0
1983	Spain	Australia	2–1
1984	United States	Czechoslovakia	2–1
1985	United States	Czechoslovakia	2–1
1986	France	Sweden	2–1
1987	Czechoslovakia	United States	2–1
1988	Sweden	United States	2–0
1989	West Germany	Argentina	2–1
1990	Yugoslavia	United States	3–0
1991	Sweden	Yugoslavia	2–1
1992	Spain	Czech Republic	2–0
1993	United States	Germany	3–0
1994	Germany	Spain	2–1
1995	Sweden	Croatia	2–1
1996	Switzerland	Czech Republic	2–1
1997	Spain	Australia	3–0
1998	Germany	Czech Republic	3–0
1999	Australia	Sweden	2–1
2000	Slovakia	Russia	3–0
2001	Australia	Russia	2–1
2002	Argentina	Russia	3–0
2003	Chile	Czech Republic	2–1
2004	Chile	Australia	2–1
2005	Germany	Argentina	2–1
2006	Croatia	Germany	2–1
2007	Argentina	Czech Republic	2–1
2008	Sweden	Russia	2–1
2009	Serbia	Germany	2–1
2010	Argentina	United States	2–1
2011	Germany	Argentina	2–1
2012	Serbia	Czech Republic	3–0

Titles by country

Titles won	Country	Years Won	Runners Up
5	United States	1975, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1993 (5)	1987, 1988, 1990, 2010 (4)
5	Germany	1989, 1994, 1998, 2005, 2011 (5)	1993, 2006, 2009 (3)
4	Argentina	1980, 2002, 2007, 2010 (4)	1989, 2005, 2011 (3)
	Sweden	1988, 1991, 1995, 2008 (4)	1986, 1999 (2)
	Spain	1978, 1983, 1992, 1997 (4)	1994 (1)
3	Australia	1979, 1999, 2001 (3)	1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1997, 2004 (6)
2	Czechoslovakia	1981, 1987 (2)	1984, 1985 (2)
	Chile	2003, 2004 (2)
	Serbia	2009, 2012 (2)
1	Yugoslavia	1990 (1)	1991 (1)
	Croatia	2006 (1)	1995 (1)
	France	1986 (1)
	Switzerland	1996 (1)
	Slovakia	2000 (1)
0	Czech Republic		1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2007, 2012 (6)
	Russia		2000, 2001, 2002, 2008 (4)
	Italy		1979, 1980 (2)
	Great Britain		1975 (1)

Point distribution

World Team Cup
Match type	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	Finals	Points	Bonus	Total
Singles 1	35	35	35	95	200	50	250
Singles 2	25	25	25	50	125	50	175
Deciding match (doubles)	35	35	35	95	200	50	250
Dead rubber (doubles)	10	10	10	20	50		50

Players who only play the finals will be awarded points from the previous round.^[11]
Players must win all 4 matches and be part of the winning team in order to earn the Bonus Points.^[11]

Fair Play Trophy

Presented since 1989, the Fair Play Trophy was awarded by an international jury of tennis journalists and the captains of the competing nations.^[12]^[13]

Year	Player
1989	Stefan Edberg
1990	Martín Jaite
1991	Eric Jelen
1992	Guy Forget
1993	Pete Sampras
1994	Magnus Gustafsson
1995	Stefan Edberg (2)
1996	Jakob Hlasek
1997	Michael Stich
1998	Petr Korda
1999	Àlex Corretja
2000	Patrick Rafter
2001	Patrick Rafter (2)
2002	Pete Sampras (2)
2003	Todd Martin
2004	Sjeng Schalken
2005	Jonas Björkman
2006	James Blake
2007	Jonas Björkman (2)
2008	James Blake (2)
2009	Rainer Schüttler
2010	Lleyton Hewitt
2011	Philipp Kohlschreiber
2011	Robin Söderling
2012	Tomáš Berdych