Davis Cup Final Tennis Betting 2009

Davis Cup Final tennis betting 2009 provides a rich source of sports betting interest as the biggest and most celebrated international men's team tennis tournament approaches toward the end of each year. Once the dust has settled on the habitually exciting Grand Slam tennis betting competitions – The australian open, The French Open, The Wimbledon Championships and the US Open – then in terms of tennis betting, the overall choice remaining isn't as high profile or attention-grabbing. That's not to say tennis betting fans will be bereft of tournaments to flash their online betting cash on, just simply less of an obvious shop window display.

But the advent of Davis Cup Final tennis betting 2009 changes all that, as international men's tennis teams from all four corners of the planet battle it out for a chance to reach the Davis Cup final held in December each year. Which means that internet tennis betting fans will have something else to sink their teeth into before the Grand Slams enter the horizon again at the turn of the year. In terms of Davis Cup Final tennis betting 2009 markets, and the choice isn't what you might call spectacular as due to the nature of the beast it's a two horse race. But despite that there's still all manner of spread bets waiting to discover with a host of leading online Tennis Betting bookies queuing up to tempt you with their individual Davis Cup Final tennis betting 2009 deals and offers.

Online Tennis Betting Bookmakers Back Spain Davis Cup Final 2009 Win

Looking at the online tennis bookies' perspective on the Davis Cup Final tennis betting 2009, and Spain seem unassailable as overwhelming favourites to land a second successive Davis Cup. The best odds the keen tennis betting fan will get at this moment in time on the host nation winning the final is 1/7 at Paddy Power, while elsewhere the best you can hope for is the uncompromising 1/8 price at Boylesports, Betfred, William Hill and Extrabet, whilst Bet365, Blue Square, SkyBet, 888sport and Ladbrokes aren't for moving at 1/9.

They say fortune favours the brave, which you might well have to be if you're backing the Davis Cup Final tennis betting 2009 hunch of a Czech Republic win, as the most opportune odds on this eventuality is offered by Paddy Power again at 4/1. Otherwise it's Bet365, Victor Chandler, Stan James, Ladbrokes and Blue Square at 5/1 best price.

Davis Cup Final Tennis Betting Gets Under Way Back In March

The first round of the Davis Cup starts way back in March each year, the 6^th and the 8^th of the month in 2009 be precise, and sees representatives of tennis teams from across the globe go hell for leather against each other for the opportunity to reach the December finals.

The Davis Cup structure itself is organised and administrated by the International Tennis Federations, the worldwide governing body that oversees every aspect of the popular racquet sport, and moreover positions itself at the fulcrum of the globe's largest and most prestigious international men's team event in world tennis. At its start point earlier in the year, in excess of one hundred international tennis teams battle it out in several Davis Cup tournament tiers so as to establish a definitive pecking order. Once this is determined, a Davis Cup world group is founded each and every year – effectively the highest tier of the Davis Cup tennis tournament – which features a streamlined selection of internationals teams that then continue to whittle away at each other from opposing sides of the net until the end of the summer/beginning of the autumn.

These 16 teams directly contest the outcome of the Davis Cup in what's essentially a four round elimination tournament that sees a series of ties to ultimately find two teams who'll go on to the final in December. Five singles and an additional five doubles matches played out over a period of three days will decide who faces who in the Davis Cup final.

Spain Look Strong Favourites To Regain Davis Cup Final Title According To Tennis Betting Bookies

Spain are appearing in their fifth Davis Cup final in ten years, having won the international team tennis competition in 2000 (disposing of Australia), 2004 (turning the screws on America 3 – 2) and 2008 (defeating Argentina 3 - 2) and entering the tournament as the top ranked side. Juan Carlos Ferrero and David Ferrer put paid to their Israeli men's singles counterparts in the Davis Cup semi-finals, whilst Tommy Robredo and Feliciano Lopez turned their Israeli doubles opponents over a little earlier to secure Spain's safe passage to the final which is set to be staged in front of their home fans in Spain between the 4^th and 6^th of December 2009.

Spain will face the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final after Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych teamed up to dispatch the threat of Croatia's Marin Cilic and Lovro Zovko in their men's doubles semi-final encounter. That's in the aftermath of both Czech players getting the better of their respective Croatian men's singles opponents only 24 hours earlier to help path the way for the Czech Davis Cup team to progress to the final.

Barcelona won the right to stage the 2009 Davis Cup Final and was officially awarded the honour on October 21st 2009 when the Spanish Tennis Federation announced the decision. The hosts opted to play out the final games on their favoured tennis court surface, clay when Barcelona's Palau San Jordi stadium welcomes both its national Davis Cup side and their fellow finalists, the Czech Republic. Spain first lifted the Davis Cup crown back in 2000 when they saw off Australia 3 – 1 in the final which, incidentally, was hosted by the venue of 2009's event.

Davis Cup Originally Contested Between Britain And America

Like a number of massive global sporting events that are contested between international sports teams and individual players on a regular basis, the Davis Cup heritage is no exception to that near rule; in as much as its roots can be traced back to a famous seat of learning. Harvard University as far back as 1899 was the place and time that the Davis Cup as we know it today came into existence, when members of the Harvard Tennis Club challenged the British to a team tournament. One of the most vociferous members of that Harvard team was a certain Dwight Davis, who went about commissioning a suitable trophy to hand to the eventual winner of this somewhat impromptu Anglo-American competition.

The inaugural International Lawn Tennis Challenge (the pre-cursor to the Davis Cup) was fought out a year later in 1900. however it wasn't until some time after the competition had grown in stature and popularity, and began to be recognized further afield that teams other than America and Britain showed an interest in entering what then remained a staunchly America versus Britain affair. As these additional teams expressed their intentions to figure in the widely-acknowledged tennis tournament, the Davis Cup was forced to expand so as to accommodate entries from across the globe; which meant that subsequent regional tournaments were hastily arranged to filter qualifiers for the main event such was the level of over subscription.

Czech Republic Looking For First Davis Cup Win Since Ivan Lendl-Inspired Victory

The current Spanish Davis Cup team captain, Albert Costa, was instrumental as a key player in their dismantling of the Australians nine years ago, whilst fellow Spaniards Juan Carlos Ferrero, Alex Corretja and Juan-Manuel Balcells brushed aside the Aussie tennis threat to claim their first Davis Cup title. In the corresponding 2008 Davis Cup final the Spanish had their work cut out by a spirited Argentinian side who made tennis life extremely difficult for their Spanish opposition in Mar Del Plata, which required Fernando Verdasco getting the better of Jose Acasuso in an epic five-setter to clinch victory.

On their route march to this year's Davis Cup final in Barcelona, the Spanish have successfully swept aside Serbia, Germany and Israel and according to the online tennis bookmakers head into the final as favourites for this back-to-back tilt. And there's good reason for that when you consider that Spain haven't been beaten at home in seventeen successive Davis Cup tennis ties. And as if that isn't impressive enough, Spain's record on clay clearly illustrates that they've not lost on their favoured playing surface in some 19 competitive matches.

The Czech Republic's journey to the Davis Cup Final witnessed them record victories over France, Argentina and Croatia on their way to setting up this imminent encounter with the defending champions, with star players Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych called upon to immerse themselves in the thick of the meaningful action on most occasions. Not since Ivan Lendl spearheaded a Davis Cup final victory in 1980 have the Czech Republic represented at this stage in the competition.