The Latvia Davis Cup team represents Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 in Davis Cup

Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...

 tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 competition and are governed by the Latvian Tennis Union. Team is coached by Ģirts Dzelde

Girts Dzelde

Ģirts Dzelde is a former professional tennis player from Latvia, currently - the coach of Latvian Davis Cup team. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 273 in 1991 and a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 108 in 1993...

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Latvia after winning tie against Slovenia

Slovenia Davis Cup team

The Slovenia Davis Cup team represents Slovenia in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Slovenian Tennis Association.Slovenia currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group II...

 returned to the Europe/Africa Zone of Group I. They previously plaeyd in the Group I 2008

2008 Davis Cup

The 2008 Davis Cup was the 97th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. Sixteen teams participated in the World Group and more than one hundred others took part in different regional groups. The first matches were played on February 8–10...

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History

Latvia competed in its first Davis Cup in 1993

1993 Davis Cup

The 1993 Davis Cup was the 82nd edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. A total of 100 nations participated in the tournament...

. Latvian players had previously represented the USSR.

Current players

• Ernests Gulbis
  Ernests Gulbis
  Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010 won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final...
  
  
• Andis Juška
  Andis Juška
  Andis Juška is a tennis player from Latvia. His highest single's ranking to date was 226 reached on October 26, 2009. Already for several years he is the second highest rated Latvian tennis player in the ATP ranking behind Ernests Gulbis. He has won nine events at the ITF Futures level. In August...
  
  
• Deniss Pavlovs
  Deniss Pavlovs
  Deniss Pavlovs is a Latvian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On July 20, 2009, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 263, whilst his highest doubles ranking of 155 was reached on September 23, 2009....
  
  
• Kārlis Lejnieks
  Karlis Lejnieks
  Kārlis Lejnieks is a retired Latvian tennis player currently pursuing interest in coaching. Through his career Lejnieks has won one Futures doubles title and has one runner-up in singles....
  
  
• Arturs Kazijevs
• Miķelis Lībietis
• Ričards Emuliņš
• Adrians Žguns