By Chris Oddo | Thursday April 5, 2018
Keeping up with the game of tennis, by the numbers. Each day at Tennis Now we’ll give you a fresh set—without any further ado, let’s preview this weekend’s Davis Cup Quarterfinals with a fresh set of stats.
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The length of Rafael Nadal’s Davis Cup winning streak on clay. The Spaniard has won his last 22 singles rubbers and owns a 22-1 record overall in Davis Cup singles matches. He will face Philipp Kohlschreiber on Friday.
6
2017 champion France will aim to win its 6th straight Davis Cup tie when it faces Italy on clay in Genoa. The French have recorded 6 consecutive victories in the competition on just 3 previous occasions and the team’s current streak of 5 straight wins is already their best winning streak since 2000-02,.
Andreas Seppi will face Lucas Pouille and Fabio Fognini will face Jeremy Chardy on Friday. France has not won on Italian soil in 91 years. France is visiting Italy for the first time since 1977.
26
Spain’s Davis Cup team has won 26 straight home Davis Cup ties, with their last defeat at home coming against Brazil in 1999. It is the second-longest home winning streak in the competition’s history, behind Italy’s 29 straight home wins between 1949 and 1964.
34
World No. 3 Marin Cilic could equal Ivan Ljubicic’s record for most Davis Cup match-wins by a Croatian player if he wins 2 rubbers this weekend. Ivan Ljubicic (36) currently holds that record.
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The Americans will bid for their first Davis Cup semifinal since 2012 when they host Belgium this weekend. Team U.S.A. has a 4-0 edge over Belgium in the team’s history.
14-2
Fabio Fognini’s lifetime Davis Cup singles record on clay.
16-0
David Ferrer’s lifetime record in Davis Cup singles rubbers on clay. He is 25-2 overall on all surfaces and 13-0 outdoors.
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Number of Davis Cup titles won by the Americans, which is most all time. Of the eight teams remaining in the competition, France is second with 10 titles, Spain has 5, Germany has 3 and Croatia and Italy each have one. Belgium and Kazakhstan are the two teams in the quarterfinals who have yet to win a Davis Cup title.