National Tennis Leagues (NTL) was a tour for professional male tennis players established in 1967 by George MacCall. In 1970 it was sold to the World Championship Tennis (WCT), a competing professional tennis league run by Lamar Hunt .
12-532: The National Tennis League (NTL) was formed by former U.S. Davis Cup captain George MacCall in 1967, as a governing body to an American professional tennis tour. MacCall signed several players to contracts, including Arthur Ashe , Rod Laver , Roy Emerson and Stan Smith . The NTL followed in the wake of MacCall's departure from the existing International Professional Tennis Association (IPTA), which had been created by promoter Wallace Dill in 1966, and preceded
24-531: Is the list of all match-ups since 1981, when the competition started being held in the current World Group format. The statistics reflect results since the 1900 Davis Cup, and are up-to-date as of the 2024 Davis Cup Finals. The statistics reflect results since the 1981 Davis Cup, and are up-to-date as of the 2024 Davis Cup Finals. * includes [REDACTED] Czechoslovakia (3–0) ** includes [REDACTED] West Germany (0–3) The United States won four times Junior Davis Cup champions,
36-721: The United States in Davis Cup tennis competition, and is governed by the United States Tennis Association . The U.S. competed in the first Davis Cup in 1900 , when a group of Harvard University students challenged the British. They are the most successful team ever to compete in the Davis Cup, winning the coveted title on 32 separate occasions closely followed by Australia with 28 victories. The U.S. Davis Cup Team won
48-563: The NTL's player contracts to Lamar Hunt in July 1970. He became the first Commissioner of World Team Tennis in 1974. Some of the players he signed to contracts were: Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Pancho Gonzales, Fred Stolle, Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals. He traveled the world to sign players. Many tournaments had to get their players through George. United States Davis Cup team The United States men's national tennis team represents
60-519: The National Tennis League. "On April 1, 1968, we signed with the National Tennis League, as George MacCall's troupe was called. Frankie (Durr) and Rosie (Casals) received a guarantee of $ 20,000 per annum for two years, mine (Ann Haydon-Jones) was $ 25,000 and Billie Jean King's was $ 40,000. George envisaged us playing a lot of matches and tournaments amongst ourselves and did not expect us to be as much involved in open tennis as later proved to be
72-496: The case....We joined the six men that he already controlled - Emerson, Laver, Gimeno, Gonzales, Rosewall and Stolle. A group of ten was an attractive proposition to offer and he believed he was going to do very well from it. His main problem was one of administration. He had to keep flying all over the world to tie up arrangements with the various associations but didn't leave sufficient time to organize his professional tours in America,
84-510: The creation of World Championship Tennis (WCT), formed by Lamar Hunt and David Dixon The NTL differed from the IPTA and from WCT in being the first to sign women to professional contracts in addition to men. In 1968 Billie Jean King became the first woman of the Open Era to sign a pro contract to tour, in a group with Rosie Casals , Françoise Dürr and Ann Haydon-Jones as the women's section of
96-534: The grand slams at some stage during their short tenure and this made the International Lawn Tennis Federation, the predecessor of the current ITF , very nervous. That was the catalyst that led to the abandonment of the distinction between amateur and professional tennis players and by 1968, the beginning of the Open Era, all tennis players could compete in all tennis tournaments George MacCall sold
108-406: The low prize money. In 1970 the National Tennis League (NTL), which employed Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzales, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, prevented its players from entering the tournament because the guarantees were insufficient. The tournament was ultimately won by Arthur Ashe. Both professional organizations, the NTL and WCT, banned their contracted players from contesting
120-516: The most important part of the operation, and didn't seem to be able or willing to delegate." In June 1969 Fred Podesta's formed Tennis Champions Inc. and became the parent company of the NTL with Podesta as president and MacCall as executive director. Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed the Australian Open, because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year's Day), and
132-734: The recently title in 2024. 2007 Davis Cup The 2007 Davis Cup was the 96th edition of the Davis Cup , a national teams competition in men's tennis . Sixteen teams participated in the World Group and 123 took part in different regional groups. The final took place 30 November - 2 December at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon , United States, with the United States defeating Russia 4-1 for their 32nd title. First round losers play in World Group play-offs . The 8 losing teams in
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#1732852069754144-485: The very first Davis Cup title in 1900 . Their most recent win was in 2007 , defeating Russia in the final. The United States played in the World Group in all but one year ( 1988 ) since it was created in 1981, sharing this record with the Czech Republic , and holds the record for ongoing consecutive years in the World Group at 30 as of 2018. Win–loss records and rankings are correct as of 17 September 2023. Here
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