Davis Cup
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- noun
- /ˈdeɪvɪs kʌp/
:
Copa Davis
- "We know what we are capable of doing in Davis Cup," said Stepanek.
- Davis Cup team
- Davis Cup match
- Davis Cup final
Examples
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But he certainly should have skipped the Davis Cup to play in Beijing.
Blog text (28) -
There is a simple reason why the Swiss Federation and Wawrinka want Federer to play more Davis Cup: money.
Blog text (10) -
But in the Davis Cup, a tie refers to a round of play between two countries: the United States.
Blog text (24) -
I tell her the rest of the news, that after the Junior Davis Cup matches I'll be moving to Boston for good.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Davis Cup final this weekend between Spain and the Czech Republic will be a tie.
Blog text (24) -
Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic will have to win a tie to win the Davis Cup.
Blog text (24) -
His Davis Cup record is also somewhat better than Corretja's: 20-7, all in singles.
Blog text (33) -
Mexico began participating in Davis Cup competition in 1924 and won its first Davis Cup match in 1926.
Academic text (1994) -
At 31, Federer knows that his days are dwindling and the Davis Cup remains a bit of unfinished business.
Blog text (23) -
The US team celebrated their victory after winning the Davis Cup for the first time in years.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Davis + cup
The word 'cup' clearly signals a trophy or sporting competition, and the pattern 'X Cup' is cross-linguistically used to name tournaments, so a learner who knows 'cup' would likely infer it is a competition or trophy. However, 'Davis' is a proper name without lexical meaning, so the specific referent (that it is an international men's tennis team event) is not derivable from the parts, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Davis Cup is named after an American tennis player, Davis, who gave a large silver cup as the prize for a team tennis event. Because countries play for that 'trophy', the name now means the annual international men's team tennis competition.