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The Spanish Davis Cup Team in "El Partido de las 12" / COPE (in Spanish)
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Team Spain celebrating Davis Cup win
2011 Spain Davis Cup Championship Team
Team Spain thanks crowd - Davis Cup final
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Davis Cup Finals 2012 Czech Rep v Spain Official Highlights (English) | Davis Cup Final 2012
The Spanish Davis Cup Team in "El Partido de las 12" / COPE (in Spanish)
Davis Cup Canada v Spain 1st Round Web Official Highlights
Stepanek v Almagro Czech Republic 3-2 Spain - Davis Cup Final Official Highlights
Davis Cup Canada v Spain Rubber 3 - Official Highlights
Highlights: Germany 4-1 Spain
Highlights: Germany v Spain : Rubber 3
Davis Cup Canada v Spain - Rubber 2 Official Highlights 2013
Team Spain celebrating Davis Cup win
2011 Spain Davis Cup Championship Team
Team Spain thanks crowd - Davis Cup final
Team Spain Davis Cup win in Austin Texas
T. Berdych v D. Ferrer Czech Republic 3-2 Spain - Davis Cup Final Official Highlights
Czech Republic v Spain - The Official Preview - 100th Davis Cup Final
Spain-Ukraine National anthems Davis Cup 2013
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Davis Cup 2008: Opening Ceremony Spain
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Martin Laurendeau on Canada playing Spain in Davis Cup
Almagro on Czech Republic 3-2 Spain - Davis Cup Final
Jaroslav reflects on Czech Republic 3-2 Spain - Davis Cup Final
David Ferrer on Czech Republic 3-2 Spain - Davis Cup Final
Daviscup Belgium vs Spain ; Spain enters the court .AVI
The Spain Davis Cup team represents Spain in the Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Real Federación Española de Tenis, presided over by José Luis Escañuela.
Spain has won the Davis Cup five times (2000, 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011), and finished as runner-up three times (1965, 1967, 2003).
As of 2011, Spain has competed in the World Group for 15 consecutive years, and for 26 of the last 27 years, which make it historically one of the most powerful countries in the tennis world.
Spain defeated Argentina in the 2011 final, held for the second time in Seville, by a score of 3–1 to claim their fifth title, and the third in four years.
Spain competed in its first Davis Cup in 1921 but didn't reach the final round until 1965, when the team led by Jaime Bartroli lost to Australia. They reached the final again two years later but though they had great players such as Manuel Santana and Manuel Orantes, Spain lost against Roy Emerson and company again.
Spanish fans had to wait 33 years in 2000, to see their team play another Davis Cup final, but this time the Spanish team defeated the Australians in Barcelona with Juan Carlos Ferrero as national hero. But Lleyton Hewitt, who had been defeated by Ferrero three years before, had his revenge very soon, when Spain lost to Australia again in 2003.
Spain (i/ˈspeɪn/ SPAYN; Spanish: España, pronounced: [esˈpaɲa] (
listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north and north east by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llívia is a Spanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine and France.
Martin Laurendeau (born July 10, 1964 in Montreal) is a former touring professional tennis player, and present coach and (non-playing) captain of the Canadian Davis Cup team.
A 6'3 right-hander, Laurendeau starred in collegiate tennis at Pepperdine University where he played between 1984 and 1987. He finished his career with the second most career singles wins in school history with 80 and the third best singles winning percentage (.816).
During his pro career which stretched from 1986 to 1993, Laurendeau had a career ATP tour singles win-loss record of 36 and 60. His best results were a round of 16 appearance in the 1988 U.S. Open and a third round appearance at 1991 Wimbledon, both in singles. His best ranking was World No. 90 which he achieved in October 1988. His tour doubles record stands at 15 and 33.
Laurendeau has been a tennis coach since 1994. He became Davis Cup captain upon the resignation of Grant Connell in 2004.
David Ferrer Ern (Valencian pronunciation: [daˈvit feˈreɾ ˈɛɾn]; born April 2, 1982 in Xàbia, Marina Alta, Valencian Community) is a Spanish professional tennis player who lives in Valencia, Spain who is currently World No. 5 in the ATP Rankings and is the second-highest ranked Spaniard behind World No. 2 Rafael Nadal. He turned professional in 2000. Ferrer is known as a clay-court specialist, although he has had success on hard courts as well, as evidenced by his semifinal appearances at the 2007 US Open and 2011 Australian Open. He was part of the Spain Davis Cup team that won the finals in 2008, 2009 and 2011. He was also runner-up at the Tennis Masters Cup in 2007. He first achieved a top–10 ranking in 2006 and reached a career high ranking of no. 4.
Ferrer was born in Xàbia in the province of Alicante, but he moved to Gandia at age 13, followed two years later by a move to Barcelona to attend the Catalan Tennis Federation. He spent nine months at Equelite, Juan Carlos Ferrero's Academy in Villena, before moving back to Xàbia while practicing in Denia.