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2004 Davis Cup

Details
Duration	6 February – 5 December
Edition	93rd
Teams	130
Champion
Winning nation	Spain
←2003 2005 →

The2004 Davis Cup was the 93rd edition of the tournament between nations in men'stennis. A total of 130 nations participated in the tournament. In the final,Spain defeated theUnited States at theEstadio de La Cartuja inSeville, Spain, on 3–5 December, giving Spain their second title.^[1]

Participating Teams
Argentina	Australia	Austria	Belarus
Canada	Czech Republic	Croatia	France
Morocco	Netherlands	Romania	Russia
Spain	Sweden	Switzerland	United States

	First round 6–8 February					Quarterfinals 9–11 April					Semifinals 24–26 September					Final 3–5 December
	Adelaide, Australia (hard)
	1	Australia	1
						Delray Beach, United States (hard)
		Sweden	4
							Sweden	1
	Uncasville,USA (indoor hard)
						7	United States	4
	7	United States	5
											Charleston, United States (hard)
		Austria	0
											7	United States	4
	Minsk, Belarus (indoor carpet)
												Belarus	0
	4	Russia	2
						Minsk, Belarus (indoor carpet)
		Belarus	3
							Belarus	5
	Agadir, Morocco (indoor hard)
						5	Argentina	0
	5	Argentina	5
																Seville, Spain (indoor clay)
		Morocco	0
																7	United States	2
	Bucharest, Romania (indoor clay)
																2	Spain	3
		Romania	2
						Prilly, Switzerland (indoor hard)
	6	Switzerland	3
						6	Switzerland	2
	Metz, France (indoor clay)
						3	France	3
		Croatia	1
											Alicante, Spain (clay)
	3	France	4
											3	France	1
	Maastricht, Netherlands (indoor clay)
											2	Spain	4
		Canada	1
						Palma de Mallorca, Spain (clay)
	8	Netherlands	4
						8	Netherlands	1
	Brno, Czech Republic (indoor carpet)
						2	Spain	4
		Czech Republic	2
	2	Spain	3

First round losers compete in play-off ties with Zonal Group I Qualifiers.

Spain 3	Estadio Olímpico,Seville, Spain[2] 3–5 December 2004 Clay (i)		United States 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Carlos Moyà Mardy Fish 6 4 6 2 6 3       2 Rafael Nadal Andy Roddick 66 78 6 2 78 66 6 2     3 Juan Carlos Ferrero / Tommy Robredo Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan 0 6 3 6 2 6       4 Carlos Moyà Andy Roddick 6 2 77 61 77 65       5 Tommy Robredo Mardy Fish 68 710 2 6

Date: 24–26 September

Home team	Score	Visiting team	Location	Venue	Door	Surface
Australia	4–1	Morocco	West Perth	Royal Kings Park	Outdoor	Grass
Chile	5–0	Japan	Viña del Mar	Club Naval de Campo Las Salinas	Outdoor	Clay
Croatia	3–2	Belgium	Rijeka	Dvorana Mladosti	Indoor	Carpet
Paraguay	0–5	Czech Republic	Lambaré	Yacht y Golf Club Paraguayo	Outdoor	Clay
Slovakia	3–2	Germany	Bratislava	National Tennis Centre	Indoor	Hard
Austria	3–2	Great Britain	Pörtschach	Werzer Arena Pörtschach	Outdoor	Clay
Romania	4–1	Canada	Bucharest	Clubul Sportiv Progresul Bucuresti	Outdoor	Clay
Russia	5–0	Thailand	Moscow	Olympic Stadium	Indoor	Clay

•  Australia, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania and Russia will remain in the World Group in2005.
•  Chile and Slovakia are promoted to the World Group in2005.
•  Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Paraguay and Thailand will remain in Zonal Group I in2005.
•  Canada and Morocco are relegated to Zonal Group I in2005.

	Second Round Play-offs					First Round Play-offs					First Round					Second Round
											1	Brazil
						Caracas, Venezuela (hard)						bye				Bahia, Brazil (clay)
						1	Brazil	2								1	Brazil	2
							Venezuela	3			Caracas, Venezuela (hard)						Paraguay	3
											Venezuela		1
	Brasília, Brazil (clay)										Paraguay		4
	1	Brazil	1
		Peru	4								Lima, Peru (clay)
											Chile		5
						Guayaquil, Ecuador (indoor hard)					Peru		0			Viña del Mar, Chile (clay)
							Peru	1									Chile	5
						2	Ecuador	4								2	Ecuador	0
												bye
											2	Ecuador

• Brazil relegated to Group II in 2005.
• Chile and Paraguay advance to World Group Play-off.

TheAmericas Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2004.

In the Americas Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams compete against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advanced to the Americas Zone Group I. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Americas Zone Group III in 2005.^[3]

	Play-offs					First Round					Second Round					Third Round
						Bayamón, Puerto Rico (indoor hard)
						1	Bahamas	3
	Bayamón, Puerto Rico (hard)						Puerto Rico	2			Mexico City, Mexico (clay)
	Puerto Rico		2								1	Bahamas	0
	Jamaica		3			Kingston, Jamaica (hard)					3	Mexico	5
						3	Mexico	4
							Jamaica	1								Toluca, Mexico (clay)
																3	Mexico	5
						Port-au-Prince, Haiti (clay)										2	Dominican Republic	0
							Haiti	2
	Havana, Cuba (hard)					4	Uruguay	3			Santo Domingo,Dominican Rep. (hard)
	Haiti		2								4	Uruguay	1
	Cuba		3			Havana, Cuba (hard)					2	Dominican Republic	4
							Cuba	1
						2	Dominican Republic	4

• Puerto Rico and Haiti relegated to Group III in 2005.
• Mexico promoted to Group I in 2005.

Puerto Rico 2	Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez,Bayamón, Puerto Rico[4] 6–8 February 2004 Hard (indoors)		Bahamas 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Gabriel Montilla Christopher Eldon 6 4 2 6 6 4 6 4     2 Luis Haddock Mark Merklein 1 6 4 6 64 77       3 Gilberto Álvarez / Gabriel Montilla Mark Merklein / Bjorn Munroe 4 6 77 65 3 6 63 77     4 Gabriel Montilla Mark Merklein 0 6 3 6 3 6       5 Ricardo González-Díaz H'Cone Thompson 6 4 7 5

Jamaica 1	Liguanea Club,Kingston, Jamaica[5] 6–8 February 2004 Hard		Mexico 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Scott Willinsky Miguel Gallardo Valles 4 6 4 6 1 6       2 Ryan Russell Luis-Manuel Flores 6 3 1 6 6 1 6 4     3 Karl Hale / Ryan Russell Daniel Langre / Víctor Romero 2 6 1 6 0 6       4 Ryan Russell Miguel Gallardo Valles 0 6 64 77 5 7       5 Scott Willinsky Daniel Langre 6 4 4 6 5 7

Haiti 2	Cercle Bellevue,Port-au-Prince, Haiti[6] 6–8 February 2004 Clay		Uruguay 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Iphton Louis Pablo Cuevas 4 6 0 6 3 6       2 Bertrand Madsen Federico Sansonetti 6 2 6 3 77 61       3 Iphton Louis / Bertrand Madsen Pablo Cuevas / Federico Sansonetti 6 4 6 4 77 65       4 Bertrand Madsen Pablo Cuevas 66 78 3 6 63 77       5 Iphton Louis Federico Sansonetti 1 6 3 6 6 3 4 6

Cuba 1	Centro Nacional de Tenis '19 de Noviembre',Havana, Cuba[7] 6–8 February 2004 Hard		Dominican Republic 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sandor Martínez Víctor Estrella Burgos 1 6 64 77 4 6       2 Ricardo Chile Jhonson García 6 3 63 77 2 6 6 3 1 6   3 Ricardo Chile / Sandor Martínez Víctor Estrella Burgos / Jhonson García 6 4 77 64 4 6 77 63     4 Eddy Gonzalez-Gonzalez Víctor Estrella Burgos 6 2 4 6 6 0 4 6 4 6   5 Favel-Antonio Freyre-Perdomo Jose Bernard 3 6 3 6

Mexico 5	Centro Deportivo Chapultepec,Mexico City, Mexico[8] 9–11 April 2004 Clay		Bahamas 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Alejandro Hernández Christopher Eldon 6 0 7 5 6 2       2 Miguel Gallardo Valles Bjorn Munroe 6 2 6 1 6 3       3 Bruno Echagaray / Santiago González Christopher Eldon / Bjorn Munroe 6 0 6 2 6 3       4 Miguel Gallardo Valles H'Cone Thompson 6 0 6 0         5 Alejandro Hernández Bjorn Munroe 6 2 77 62

Dominican Republic 4	Centro Nacional de Tenis,Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic[9] 9–11 April 2004 Hard		Uruguay 1
1 2 3 4 5 1 Víctor Estrella Burgos Pablo Cuevas 6 4 6 3 7 5       2 Jhonson García Marcel Felder 7 5 6 4 7 5       3 Víctor Estrella Burgos / Jhonson García Augusto Ricciardi-Castelli / Marcel Felder 3 6 2 6 6 3 7 5 6 4   4 Michael-Ray Pallares González Federico Sansonetti 6 3 6 3         5 Federico Rodríguez Pablo Cuevas 3 6 6 1 3 6

Puerto Rico 2	Centro de Tenis Municipal (Honda),Bayamón, Puerto Rico[10] 9–11 April 2004 Hard		Jamaica 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Gabriel Montilla Scott Willinsky 6 3 78 66 6 4       2 Luis Haddock Ryan Russell 7 5 6 3 6 2       3 Gilberto Álvarez / Gabriel Montilla Ryan Russell / Jermaine Smith 2 6 61 77 3 6       4 Gabriel Montilla Ryan Russell 77 63 3 6 0 6 2 6     5 Juan Ríos Scott Willinsky 6 2 65 77 2 6 4 6

Cuba 3	Centro Nacional de Tenis "19 de Noviembre",Havana, Cuba[11] 9–11 April 2004 Hard		Haiti 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Eddy Gonzalez-Gonzalez Bertrand Madsen 5 7 2 6 3 6       2 Ricardo Chile Olivier Sajous 6 4 6 0 6 0       3 Ricardo Chile / Sandor Martínez Iphton Louis / Bertrand Madsen 6 4 6 3 6 3       4 Ricardo Chile Bertrand Madsen 6 2 6 3 6 3       5 Edgar Hernandez-Perez Olivier Sajous 7 5 66 78 2 6

Mexico 5	Club Deportivo Toluca,Toluca, Mexico[12] 24–26 September 2004 Clay		Dominican Republic 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Alejandro Hernández Jhonson García 6 4 6 4 6 4       2 Miguel Gallardo Valles Víctor Estrella Burgos 6 3 6 4 3 6 77 65     3 Bruno Echagaray / Santiago González Víctor Estrella Burgos / Jhonson García 6 2 6 3 77 64       4 Santiago González Jhonson García 6 1 7 5         5 Alejandro Hernández Federico Rodríguez 6 1 6 4

• Venue: Country Club de Tegucigalpa,Tegucigalpa, Honduras (outdoor hard)
• Date: 4-8 February

Rank	Team
1	Colombia
2	Netherlands Antilles
3	El Salvador
4	Bolivia
5	Honduras
6	Panama
7	U.S. Virgin Islands
8	Trinidad and Tobago

•  Colombia and Netherlands Antilles promoted to Group II in 2005.
•  U.S. Virgin Islands and Trinidad and Tobago relegated to Group IV in 2005.

• Venue: Costa Rica Country Club,Escazú, Costa Rica (outdoor hard)
• Date: 7 - 11 April

Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA
Guatemala	5	5	0	14	1
Saint Lucia	5	4	1	10	5
Barbados	5	2	3	8	7
Costa Rica	5	2	3	7	8
Bermuda	5	1	4	3	12
Eastern Caribbean	5	1	4	3	12

Guatemala and St.Lucia promoted to Group III for 2005.

	Second Round Play-offs					First Round Play-offs					First Round					Second Round
											Nonthaburi, Thailand (indoor hard)
											1	Thailand	5
						Kaohsiung,Taiwan (hard)						Pakistan	0			Bangkok, Thailand (indoor hard)
						Pakistan		0								1	Thailand	4
						Chinese Taipei		5			Kaohsiung,Taiwan (hard)					3	Uzbekistan	1
											3	Uzbekistan	4
	Islamabad, Pakistan (clay)											Chinese Taipei	1
	Pakistan		3
	New Zealand		2								Jakarta, Indonesia (hard)
												Indonesia	2
						Jakarta, Indonesia (hard)					4	Japan	3			Osaka, Japan (hard)
						Indonesia		5								4	Japan	3
						New Zealand		0			Invercargill, New Zealand (indoor carpet)					2	India	2
												New Zealand	2
											2	India	3

•  New Zealand relegated to Group II in 2005.
•  Thailand and Japan advance to World Group Play-off.

	Play-offs					First Round					Second Round					Third Round
						Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (indoor hard)
						1	South Korea	5
	Tehran, Iran (clay)						Malaysia	0			Busan, South Korea (hard)
	Malaysia		1								1	South Korea	5
	Iran		4			Beirut, Lebanon (indoor carpet)					4	Lebanon	0
						4	Lebanon	3
							Iran	2								Nanjing,China (hard)
																1	South Korea	2
						Manila, Philippines (indoor clay)										3	China	3
							Philippines	1
	Manila, Philippines (indoor clay)					3	China	4			Nanjing,China (indoor hard)
		Philippines	4								3	China	5
	2	Hong Kong	1			Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (hard)						Kuwait	0
						2	Hong Kong	1
							Kuwait	3

• Malaysia and Hong Kong relegated to Group III in 2005.
• China promoted to Group I in 2005.

Venue: Phu Tho Tennis Centre,Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (hard)
Date: 7–11 April

Pool A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Qualification
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	Advance toPromotion pool		—	3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Tajikistan	3	2	1			0–3	—	3–0	3–0
3	Qatar	3	1	2	Advance toRelegation pool		0–3	0–3	—	3–0
4	Oman	3	0	3			0–3	0–3	0–3	—

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Qualification
1	Pacific Oceania	3	3	0	Advance toPromotion pool		—	2–1	3–0	3–0
2	Vietnam	3	2	1			1–2	—	2–1	3–0
3	Bahrain	3	1	2	Advance toRelegation pool		0–3	1–2	—	2–1
4	Syria	3	0	3			0–3	0–3	1–2	—

Promotion pool

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Promotion
1	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	Promoted toGroup II		—	2–1	3–0	3–0[a]
2	Pacific Oceania	3	2	1			1–2	—	2–1[b]	2–1
3	Vietnam	3	1	2			0–3	1–2[b]	—	2–0
4	Tajikistan	3	0	3			0–3[a]	1–2	0–2	—

Relegation pool

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Qualification
1	Bahrain	3	3	0			—	2–1	3–0	2–1[a]
2	Qatar	3	2	1			1–2	—	3–0[b]	3–0
3	Oman	3	1	2	Relegated toGroup IV		0–3	3–0[b]	—	2–1
4	Syria	3	0	3			1–2[a]	0–3	1–2	—

Venue: Al Hussein Sport City,Amman, Jordan (hard)
Date: 7–11 April

	Pool A	KSA	SIN	JOR	UAE	BRU	TKM
1	Saudi Arabia (4–1)		3–0	2–1	0–3	3–0	3–0
2	Singapore (4–1)	0–3		2–1	2–1	3–0	3–0
3	Jordan (3–2)	1–2	1–2		2–1	3–0	2–1
4	United Arab Emirates (3–2)	3–0	1–2	1–2		3–0	2–1
5	Brunei (1–4)	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3		2–1
6	Turkmenistan (0–5)	0–3	0–3	1–2	1–2	1–2

	Pool B	SRI	BAN	MYA	KGZ	IRQ
1	Sri Lanka (4–0)		3–0	2–1	3–0	3–0
2	Bangladesh (3–1)	0–3		2–1	3–0	3–0
3	Myanmar (1–3)	1–2	1–2		2–1	1–2
4	Kyrgyzstan (1–3)	0–3	0–3	1–2		2–1
5	Iraq (1–3)	0–3	0–3	2–1	1–2

• Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka promoted to Group III in 2005.

Second round Play-offs

First round Play-offs

First round

Second round

S

Germany

Alsdorf, Germany (indoor hard)

bye

Israel

S

Germany

5

bye

Israel

0

Israel

Ramat HaSharon, Israel (hard)

bye

Israel

3

Finland

2

S

Great Britain

Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg (indoor hard)

bye

bye

S

Great Britain

4

Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg (indoor hard)

Finland

Luxembourg

1

Finland

1

Luxembourg

4

Harare, Zimbabwe (indoor hard)

Greece

2

Tournai, Belgium (indoor clay)

Zimbabwe

3

Greece

Zimbabwe

1

bye

S

Belgium

4

bye

Pretoria, South Africa (hard)

S

Belgium

Greece

1

South Africa

4

bye

Johannesburg, South Africa (grass)

South Africa

bye

South Africa

2

South Africa

S

Slovakia

3

bye

S

Slovakia

• Finland and Greece relegated to Group II in 2005.
• Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, and Slovakia advance to World Group Play-off.

TheEurope/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2004.

In the Europe/Africa Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group III in 2005.^[13]

Relegation Play-offs

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Cagliari, Italy (clay)

S

Italy

3

Tbilisi, Georgia (clay)

Teramo, Italy (clay)

Georgia

2

Georgia

3

S

Italy

5

Sofia, Bulgaria (indoor carpet)

Egypt

2

S

Bulgaria

0

S

Bulgaria

5

Livorno, Italy (clay)

Egypt

0

S

Italy

3

Algiers, Algeria (clay)

Poland

2

S

Denmark

Slovenia

Gdynia, Poland (clay)

Algeria

w/o[14]

S

Denmark

Algeria

1

Portorož, Slovenia (clay)

S

Slovenia

w/o[15]

Poland

4

S

Slovenia

2

Poland

3

Tunis, Tunisia (hard)

Tunisia

2

Liepāja, Latvia (clay)

Maia, Portugal (clay)

S

Portugal

3

Tunisia

2

S

Portugal

0

Belgrade,Serbia-Mont. (indoor carpet)

S

Latvia

3

S

Serbia and Montenegro

5

Latvia

0

Szeged, Hungary (clay)

S

Serbia and Montenegro

5

S

Serbia and Montenegro

3

Dublin, Ireland (indoor carpet)

Hungary

0

Hungary

4

Donetsk, Ukraine (hard)

Szeged, Hungary (clay)

S

Ireland

1

S

Ireland

1

Hungary

3

Oslo, Norway (indoor hard)

Ukraine

4

S

Norway

2

Ukraine

2

S

Norway

3

•  Egypt, Denmark, Tunisia, and Ireland relegated to Group III in 2005.
•  Italy and Serbia and Montenegro promoted to Group I in 2005.

Italy 3	Tennis Club Cagliari,Cagliari, Italy[16] 9–11 April 2004 Clay		Georgia 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Alessio di Mauro Irakli Ushangishvili 6 1 6 0 6 2       2 Andreas Seppi Irakli Labadze 4 6 5 7 6 1 6 2 2 6   3 Massimo Bertolini / Giorgio Galimberti Lado Chikhladze / Irakli Labadze 77 65 7 5 6 4       4 Giorgio Galimberti Irakli Labadze 1 6 2 6 7 5 3 6     5 Andreas Seppi Lado Chikhladze 6 2 6 4 6 4

Bulgaria 5	Sofia Tennis Hall,Sofia, Bulgaria[17] 9–11 April 2004 Carpet (indoors)		Egypt 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Ivaylo Traykov Karim Maamoun 6 2 6 3 6 4       2 Todor Enev Mohamed Mamoun 6 2 6 0 6 2       3 Todor Enev / Ivaylo Traykov Amr Ghoneim / Karim Maamoun 6 3 7 5 6 2       4 Ilia Kushev Amr Ghoneim 6 2 6 2         5 Yordan Kanev Karim Maamoun 77 61 6 3

Slovenia 2	ŠRC Marina Portorož,Portorož, Slovenia[18] 9–11 April 2004 Clay		Poland 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Marko Tkalec Bartłomiej Dąbrowski 6 4 6 3 6 0       2 Luka Gregorc Łukasz Kubot 65 77 62 77 3 6       3 Andrej Kračman / Boštjan Ošabnik Mariusz Fyrstenberg / Marcin Matkowski 1 6 5 7 62 77       4 Marko Tkalec Łukasz Kubot 6 1 77 62 4 6 3 6 6 4   5 Andrej Kračman Mariusz Fyrstenberg 5 7 6 0 2 6 3 6

Tunisia 2	Centre National de Tennis,Tunis, Tunisia[19] 9–11 April 2004 Hard		Portugal 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Haythem Abid Leonardo Tavares 65 77 1 6 6 4 2 6     2 Malek Jaziri Bernardo Mota 6 2 1 6 5 7 77 64 8 6   3 Haythem Abid / Malek Jaziri Fred Gil / Leonardo Tavares 5 7 3 6 2 6       4 Haythem Abid Fred Gil 4 6 3 6 5 7       5 Malek Jaziri Rui Machado 6 4 6 3