Luxembourg Davis Cup team
The Luxembourg Davis Cup team represents Luxembourg in the Davis Cup, becoming the Luxembourg national tennis team. It is administered by the Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Tennis and is currently in the Europe / Africa Zone Group II
History
Luxembourg took first in 1947 at the Davis Cup in part and lost the first 17 meetings until the first victory in 1965, a 3-2 win over Turkey.
In 1991, the team caused a first for attention and reached the final of Group II, however, this lost against Norway. A year later, her promotion to the group I and the local reach the second round, which is her most greatest success. This wave of success, however, was not of long duration: even play in Group III in 1994 rose again from Luxembourg and had shortly thereafter.
In April 2000, Gilles Müller joined the team and played his first game in the 2:3 defeat to Ireland, where he celebrated two individual victories. In the following years he carried with Mike Scheidweiler significantly to the resurgence of Luxembourg to which again played 2003 in Group I and 2004 and in 2006 reached the quarterfinals.
After a defeat in 2007 against Macedonia Relegation followed the renewed descent and in the meantime had to compete III before it once again moved into the Group II 2010 Luxembourg in the group. In April 2012 Scheidweiler outperformed against Madagascar with its total of 19 double victory the record by Johny Goudenbour and thus became the most successful doubles players of the Luxembourg Davis Cup history. In the 3-2 win over Morocco in February 2014 Scheidweiler completed his 36th Davis Cup participation for Luxembourg, surpassing another record of Goudenbour.
Player
Current
- Mike Scheidweiler ( Since 1998, 33 wins, 29 defeats)
- Gilles Kremer ( since 1999, 14 wins, 23 defeats)
- Gilles Muller ( Since 2000, 51 wins, 17 defeats)
- Laurent Bram ( Since 2006, 7 wins, 19 defeats)
- Udo Nastasi ( Since 2013, 1 win, 5 losses )
- Christophe Tholl ( Since 2014, 0 wins, 2 losses )
Former (selection)
- Geza Wertheim (1947-1957, 0 wins, 30 defeats)
- Gaston Wampach (1947-1963, 4 wins, 29 defeats)
- Frank Baden (1958-1972, 16 wins, 22 defeats)
- Johny Goudenbour (1981-2000, 40 wins, 37 defeats)