{"id":269754,"date":"2025-11-18T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269754\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:51:07","slug":"davis-cup-finals-2025-format-schedule-teams-and-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269754\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup Finals 2025: Format, schedule, teams and prize money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Davis Cup is a team tournament played over the course of a year, affectionately known as the &#8216;World Cup of tennis&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the largest annual international team competition in world sport and was founded in 1900 by Dwight Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winning nations from the qualifiers, which take place throughout the year, progress to November&#8217;s finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ties in the finals are played as a best of three matches &#8211; two singles and one doubles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each nation has a team of four or five players and a captain, who decides which players will compete in singles and doubles matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Davis Cup Finals take place in Bologna, Italy, from 18-23 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Davis Cup is a team tournament played over the course of a year, affectionately known as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-269754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}