Swiss Davis Cup bear market – The downed champions are planning a fresh start

First it was seven years ago that Switzerland won the Davis Cup for the only time in Lille, in front of record attendance figures of daily fast 30,000 people. The “Gedge Nation »France was humiliated in front of its own audience by a team whose two leaders had competed in a grueling semi-final at the World Tour Finals days earlier in London opposite togivewere standing (“Mirka Gate”). And that largest support, Roger Federer, Was battered and questionable until the last minute with a back injury.

Tempi passati. Since then the two have made it easy a total of 23 times Grand Slam winners just one more thing, their laces for the tradition that goes back to 1900wlace up competition. That was enough in 2015 to beat the Netherlands 4-1 in Geneva. It was the last flare-up of a nation for which this competition schon in the times of Marc Rosset and Jakob Hlasek stood above all. she had Reached the final in 1992 and came amazingly close to triumph against a US dream team with Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi in Fort Worth.