2008 Tennis Betting Opportunities

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Davis Cup World Tennis Tournament 2008 Andy Murray is the ninth-seeded Scot will lead the British Davis Cup team that takes on host Argentina on a red clay court at the 14,097-seat Estadio Parque Roca in Buenos Aires, February 8-10. Murray, his older brother Jamie Murray, Jamie Baker and Alex Bogdanovic have been selected to the British squad by captain John Lloyd. Great Britain's next Davis Cup tie is against Argentina away in the first round of the World Group from 8-10 February 2008. Murray, the world number nine, is joined in the British team by his doubles-specialist brother Jamie, Alex Bogdanovic, who is currently ranked 180 in the world, and Jamie Baker (217). Britain returned to the elite of the competition by beating Croatia 4-1 last September but team captain John Lloyd was bullish about his side's prospects. Britain last played Argentina in 1989, losing 3-2 on grass at Eastbourne. The winner of this year's tie will reach the quarter final stages of the competition while the loser will play a world group play-off tie in September.

2008 World Group 1st Round 8 - 10 February Russia v Serbia, Moscow Stadium, Russia Czech Republic v Belgium, Ostrava Stadium, Czech Republic Argentina v Great Britain, Buenos Aires Stadium, Argentina Israel v Sweden, Ramat Hasharon Stadium, Israel Germany v Republic of Korea, Halle Braunschweig Stadium, Germany Peru v Spain, Peru Stadium, Peru Romania v France, Romania Stadium, Romania Austria v USA, Vienna Stadium, Austria

Original Tournament Name: International Lawn Tennis Challenge
Top Davis Cup Winners: United States, Australia, Great Britain, France
Davis Cup Notable Players: John McEnroe, Iva Lendi, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer
Recent Winners: Russia (2002), Australia (2003), Spain (2004), Croatia (2005), Russia (2006)

Davis Cup Structure
Run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the Davis Cup tennis tournament is based on a knockout format. The only exception is matches played by the lower two regional groups, which play a round robin competition.

The original format, devised by Davis, is still in force today. Competition always takes place over three days,
with two singles matches on day 1, a doubles match on day 2 and two more singles matches on day 3. This is known as a “tie”. Each match within a tie is known as a “rubber”.

The competition is broken up into

the elite World Group of 16 nations
3 regional zones - Europe/Africa, America and Asia/Oceania
4 groups for each regional zone
Teams are seeded and then relegated to the different groups by the ITF according to their ITF ranking.

Davis Cup Tennis History: In 1900, the American Dwight Davis organized and won the first Davis Cup tennis
tournament in Boston. Since then, this annual competition played around the globe has become one of the most
important tournaments in the world, embodying both the values of fair play and the spirit of competition.
Since the begining of the Davis Cup, it has been won by a total of 12 different nations. The United States has dominated the tournament with 31 titles, followed by Australia with a total of 28 titles. Russia, Argentina, and Croatia currently top the ITF rankings.

Real Tennis as it is called in Britain, Royal Tennis as it is called in Australia, Court Tennis as it is called in the States, Jeu de Paume as it is called in France or Tennis as it is properly known, is the oldest of all the racket games, and unlike most of the others, such as squash or lawn tennis, it is a product of evolution rather than pure invention.

   The game started to form into something recognizable in the 11th century. It started as hand ball, played by monks around the cloisters of monasteries in Italy and France, much as schoolchildren do in any appropriate corner of their school, and rules varied to suit local whims and conditions. Gradually, as monks traveled to other monasteries, the more enjoyable rules were more generally adopted, the more bizarre rules abandoned and people started to add features to their courtyards that improved the pastime, and demolish or modify others that detracted from it. The monks enjoyed the game so much that the Pope banned the playing of it, and by the 14th century the game had spread from cloister to castle and become a game of the nobility...

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