National Tennis Leagues (NTL) was a tour for professional male tennis players established in 1967 by George MacCall. In 1970 it was sold to the World Championship Tennis (WCT), a competing professional tennis league run by Lamar Hunt .
13-539: The National Tennis League (NTL) was formed by former U.S. Davis Cup captain George MacCall in 1967, as a governing body to an American professional tennis tour. MacCall signed several players to contracts, including Arthur Ashe , Rod Laver , Roy Emerson and Stan Smith . The NTL followed in the wake of MacCall's departure from the existing International Professional Tennis Association (IPTA), which had been created by promoter Wallace Dill in 1966, and preceded
26-531: Is the list of all match-ups since 1981, when the competition started being held in the current World Group format. The statistics reflect results since the 1900 Davis Cup, and are up-to-date as of the 2024 Davis Cup Finals. The statistics reflect results since the 1981 Davis Cup, and are up-to-date as of the 2024 Davis Cup Finals. * includes [REDACTED] Czechoslovakia (3–0) ** includes [REDACTED] West Germany (0–3) The United States won four times Junior Davis Cup champions,
39-756: The United States in Davis Cup tennis competition, and is governed by the United States Tennis Association . The U.S. competed in the first Davis Cup in 1900 , when a group of Harvard University students challenged the British. They are the most successful team ever to compete in the Davis Cup, winning the coveted title on 32 separate occasions closely followed by Australia with 28 victories. The U.S. Davis Cup Team won
52-832: The United States Lawn Tennis Association and the British Lawn Tennis Association , Dwight F. Davis , one of the four Harvard players, designed a tournament format and spent money from his own pocket to purchase an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve, Crump & Low. The first match between the United States and the British Isles was held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston , Massachusetts in 1900. The American team, of which Davis
65-570: The NTL's player contracts to Lamar Hunt in July 1970. He became the first Commissioner of World Team Tennis in 1974. Some of the players he signed to contracts were: Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Pancho Gonzales, Fred Stolle, Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals. He traveled the world to sign players. Many tournaments had to get their players through George. United States Davis Cup team The United States men's national tennis team represents
78-529: The National Tennis League. "On April 1, 1968, we signed with the National Tennis League, as George MacCall's troupe was called. Frankie (Durr) and Rosie (Casals) received a guarantee of $ 20,000 per annum for two years, mine (Ann Haydon-Jones) was $ 25,000 and Billie Jean King's was $ 40,000. George envisaged us playing a lot of matches and tournaments amongst ourselves and did not expect us to be as much involved in open tennis as later proved to be
91-501: The case....We joined the six men that he already controlled - Emerson, Laver, Gimeno, Gonzales, Rosewall and Stolle. A group of ten was an attractive proposition to offer and he believed he was going to do very well from it. His main problem was one of administration. He had to keep flying all over the world to tie up arrangements with the various associations but didn't leave sufficient time to organize his professional tours in America,
104-519: The creation of World Championship Tennis (WCT), formed by Lamar Hunt and David Dixon The NTL differed from the IPTA and from WCT in being the first to sign women to professional contracts in addition to men. In 1968 Billie Jean King became the first woman of the Open Era to sign a pro contract to tour, in a group with Rosie Casals , Françoise Dürr and Ann Haydon-Jones as the women's section of
117-553: The grand slams at some stage during their short tenure and this made the International Lawn Tennis Federation, the predecessor of the current ITF , very nervous. That was the catalyst that led to the abandonment of the distinction between amateur and professional tennis players and by 1968, the beginning of the Open Era, all tennis players could compete in all tennis tournaments George MacCall sold
130-406: The low prize money. In 1970 the National Tennis League (NTL), which employed Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzales, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, prevented its players from entering the tournament because the guarantees were insufficient. The tournament was ultimately won by Arthur Ashe. Both professional organizations, the NTL and WCT, banned their contracted players from contesting
143-523: The most important part of the operation, and didn't seem to be able or willing to delegate." In June 1969 Fred Podesta's formed Tennis Champions Inc. and became the parent company of the NTL with Podesta as president and MacCall as executive director. Nevertheless, except for the 1969 and 1971 tournaments, many of the best players missed the Australian Open, because of the remoteness, the inconvenient dates (around Christmas and New Year's Day), and
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#1732780840211156-533: The recently title in 2024. 1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge The 1900 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the first edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup . The tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team, who came up with the idea of challenging the British to a tennis competition. Once the idea received the go-ahead from
169-552: The very first Davis Cup title in 1900 . Their most recent win was in 2007 , defeating Russia in the final. The United States played in the World Group in all but one year ( 1988 ) since it was created in 1981, sharing this record with the Czech Republic , and holds the record for ongoing consecutive years in the World Group at 30 as of 2018. Win–loss records and rankings are correct as of 17 September 2023. Here
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