According to a Swedish newspaper (Svenska Dagbladet) Thomas Johansson has been asked to come out of retirement to play Sweden’s Davis Cup playoffs against Italy in September.

There was a bit of trouble this weekend at the Davis Cup match between Serbia and Croatia. Novak Djokovic and Ivan Ljubicic are great friends on tour and they werent expecting the crowd to react the way they did!

On the back of making the Wimbledon final, Tomas Berdych has decided to take a little break and ruled himself out of the Czech Republic’s Davis Cup quarterfinal against Chile because of an abdominal muscle injury. “If I have a problem, it’s this muscle,” Berdych told Czech public radio on Sunday just hours after losing [...]

Mario Ancic has ruled himself out of Wimbledon and the Davis Cup tie against the USA. Ancic has still not completely healed from his mononucleosis which he first got two years ago and he has opted to take a break from tennis. “Don’t ask me when I’ll return, because I don’t even know the answer [...]

Former Australian tennis star Mark Philippoussis is currently facing financial collapse as he is unable to pay his mortgage on his Williamstown home in bayside Melbourne. Philippoussis earned more than $8 million dollars on court over the years, but is now being sued for failing to pay the mortgage and not just for a small [...]

The Australian Davis Cup team has just escaped suspension from the Davis Cup and instead will be fined $12,800 AUD by the ITF. The ITF’s five-member Davis Cup committee held talks about what penalties Australia should face for refusing to travel to Chennai for the May 8-10 tie because of security concerns. “The ITF’s Davis [...]

The Internation Tennis Federation (ITF) has scheduled to make a final decision today about whether to suspend the Australian Davis Cup team for next year. This all has to do with Australia not wanting to play their Davis Cup match which was scheduled on May 8 – 10 because of security concerns. In an interview [...]

Tennis Australia has announced that they will not play their Davis Cup tie in India next month. We reported this story after Todd Woodbridge stated that the ITF were being irresponsible. The International Tennis Federation turned down a request to move the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I third-round tie from Chennai, despite Tennis Australia saying India [...]

Rafael Nadal will miss Spain’s Davis Cup final against Argentina because of a knee injury. The top-ranked Nadal said Monday he was still struggling with tendinitis in his right knee following a week of treatment. “The knee said no,” the 22-year-old said. Spain team doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro said Nadal would need three to six weeks [...]

Argetine Davis Cup player Juan Martin del Potro is said to be very happy with Mar del Plata as the venue for the Davis Cup Final. Argentina will play Spain in the 2008 final, and not all players are happy with choice of venue. David Nalbandian would have rather the final be played in Cordoba. [...]

AIG will not be renewing their U.S. Davis Cup sponsorship. The American International Group Inc. said they wont be renewing their contract which expires at year’s end. With AIG serving as the U.S. Tennis Association’s only year-round national sponsor for Davis Cup, the relationship has been worth millions of dollars since it began in 1999. [...]

Croatia was penalized points and fined an undisclosed amount for playing Davis Cup matches against Brazil on a court that was considered too fast. Croatia will lose 2,000 points as part of the Davis Cup Committee’s ruling reached in Madrid on Sept. 23, the International Tennis Federation said Thursday. Croatia’s victory over Brazil will stand. [...]

Andy Murray appeared to place a question-mark against his own future Davis Cup participation after Britain’s relegation from the elite World Group. US Open finalist Murray won both his singles matches but was powerless to prevent a 3-2 defeat against Austria at Wimbledon today, which saw Britain demoted to amongst the also-rans in the Europe/Africa [...]

As we talked about a few days ago, the Davis Cup semifinals have been happening and there was no real upsets in the final results. Spain secured victory with a 4-1 win over the USA, while Argentina defeated Russia in the other semi. The final is going to be very interesting Spain and Raphael Nadal [...]