The Portugal men's national tennis team represents

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

in Davis Cup

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competition and is governed by the Federação Portuguesa de Ténis. Portugal competes in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 2017, after being promoted from Group II in the 2015 season. They have never played in the World Group, but reached the World Group Play-offs in

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and

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History

Portugal competed in its first Davis Cup in

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. Their first opponent was

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, who won 4–1. Portugal's most successful moment came in

after defeating

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4–1 in the Group I of the Europe/Africa Zone and qualifying to the World Group play-offs. The team led by

João Cunha e Silva João Cunha e Silva (also known as João Cunha-Silva; born 27 November 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Portugal. He won two doubles titles during his career on the ATP Tour. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world N ...

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and Emanuel Couto lost, however, to

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4–0 (the last rubber was abandoned).

Current squad

''Player information and rankings ''

Recent performances

Here is the list of all match-ups since 1981, when the competition started being held in the current World Group format.

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Statistics

''Since 1981 (Current through 2017 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I Second round)'' ;Record *World Group: 0 times *WG Play-off: 2 time *Europe/Africa Zone Group I: 21 times *Europe/Africa Zone Group II: 11 times ;Home and away record (since 1925) *Performance at home (56 match-ups): 32–24 (%) *Performance away (51 match-ups): 13–38 (%) *Total: 45–62 (%) ;Head-to-head record (1981–) * 3–0 * 3–0 * 2–0 * 2–0 * 2–1 * 2–1 * 2–1 * 2–1 * 2–2 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–0 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–1 * 1–2 * 1–2 * 1–2 * 0–1 * 0–1 * 0–2 * 0–4 * 0–4 * 0–4 :''Russia record includes two losses against Soviet Union and one loss against CIS.'' :''Serbia and Montenegro record includes two victories against Yugoslavia.'' ;Record against continents ;Record by decade: *1981–1989: 7–9 (%) *1990–1999: 10–10 (%) *2000–2009: 11–12 (%) *2010–2019: 13–6 (%)

Notes

References

External links

{{National sports teams of Portugal Davis Cup teams Davis Tennis in Portugal