The Cup that originally cost Davis $700 in 1900 would cost approximately $600,000 to replicate in
its present day form.The United States with a total of 32 Davis Cup wins, and
Australia with a total of 28 wins (including those won under partnership with New Zealand
maintained between 1905-1914), have been the best-performing country's throughout the tournament's history, having acquired possession
of the sports award more times than any other nation. After Davis' death in 1945,
the trophy became known as the Davis Cup in his memory and honor, and the
tournament - originally called the International Lawn Tennis Challenge - became known by the same
name. Great Britain (including 5 years that they competed as the British Isles) and France
have won the trophy a total of nine times each, and Sweden has won seven
times.The trophy's history is among the richest in sports, having embarked upon Zapatillas Puma many adventures in
the hands of the various players of the Cup's winning teams over its 111 year
history. In order to accommodate the increase in the competition's number of participating teams over
the years, however, the Davis Cup tournament began splitting into zones until the tournament for
the actual Cup eventually became limited to the world's top sixteen tennis-playing nations each year,
which make up the tournament's World Group, with the remaining nations being divided into four
geographic zones to compete for future opportunities to become one the World Group's sixteen.Once the
U.S. Fred Perry of Britain, and Henri Cochet of France, for example, took the trophy
nightclub-hopping around France after the 1933 final between their nations, drinking champagne from the bowl
of the cup throughout their adventure. Respectively, they have also finished as runners-up 29 times
and 19 times. and British Lawn tennis associations agreed nike shox nz to enter into the tournament against
one another, Harvard's Dwight F. Davis, partly responsible for the idea, spent $700 of his
own money to purchase the now famous sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low
- the Cup which would be passed from year to year to the tournament's champions,
and which the sixteen World Group teams vie for each year. Rowland Rhodes, an Englishman
in New England, was commissioned by the company to design a bowl that would serve
as a fitting award for the winners of the newly established international tennis competition. In
2002, a new plinth was added to the Davis Cup trophy, giving it sixteen more
plaques and castings, as well as 43 more inches in height - and still growing
once the Cup once again runs out of room for more plaques engraved with the
names of each year's winners and finalists. Its top edge was decorated with a border
of primrose and acanthus leave clusters, with the primrose images reappearing at the bottom of
the bowl along with buds and tendrils. The trophy was a 13 inch high, 18
inch wide sterling silver bowl washed in gold, designed in classical style. In the initial
format for the Davis Cup tournament beginning in 1900, all competing teams would compete against
one another to qualify to challenge the reigning champions in the final round. Another famous
Davis Cup story involves Mabel Brookes, the wife of Norman Brookes of Australia, who used
it as a vase for peonies for a while until she grew tired of looking
at its dominating features and carelessly tossed the famous Cup away, out of sight, into
a bank vault.The author of this article is 10 year veteran in the crystal awards
and recognition gifts industry..
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