Next Friday, the German team around Alexander Zverev will start the Davis Cup with a home game against Switzerland.
The team competition, which the Germans last won in 1993, has repeatedly produced great drama in the past: Six of the ten longest games in the history of professional tennis were Davis Cup duels.
However, further marathon matches like the six-hour epic between Boris Becker and John McEnroe in 1987 are unlikely: now only two instead of three winning sets are played.
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