1977 Davis Cup Europe Zone

The Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1977 Davis Cup.

33 teams entered the Europe Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. 8 teams entered the competition in the pre-qualifying rounds, competing for 3 spots in the preliminary rounds. The 3 winners in the pre-qualifying rounds joined an additional 21 teams in the preliminary rounds, with 12 teams in each sub-zone competing for 4 places in the main draw, to join the 4 finalists from the 1976 Europe Zone.

The winners of each sub-zone's main draw went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Eastern Zone.[1]

France defeated Romania in the Zone A final, and Italy defeated Spain in the Zone B final, resulting in both France and Italy progressing to the Inter-Zonal Zone.[1][2][3]

Zone A

Pre-qualifying rounds

Draw

First RoundQualifying Round
 Iran
Tehran, Iran (clay)
bye
 Iran5
 Algeria0
 Algeriaw/o
 Morocco

Qualifying round

Iran vs. Algeria


Iran
5
Imperial Tennis Club, Tehran, Iran[4]
25–27 August 1976
Clay

Algeria
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Taghi Akbari
Abdeslam Mahmoudi
6
0
6
4
6
3
     
2
Kamyab Derafshijavan
Sebti Bounaib
6
2
6
2
7
5
     
3
Moharram Ali Khodai / Ezzatollah Nemati
Sebti Bounaib / Abdeslam Mahmoudi
6
2
6
2
6
3
     
4
Moharram Ali Khodai
Moussa Said
6
0
6
1
6
3
     
5
Ezzatollah Nemati
Abdeslam Mahmoudi
6
1
6
3
6
2
     

Preliminary rounds

Draw

First RoundQualifying Round
Poznań, Poland (clay)
 Norway0
Warsaw, Poland
 Poland5
 Poland3
 West Germany1
bye
 West Germany
Biel, Switzerland
  Switzerland3
Zürich, Switzerland
 Rhodesia2
  Switzerland2
 France3
bye
 France
 Romania
Bucharest, Romania (clay)
bye
 Romania5
Brussels, Belgium
 Belgium0
 Bulgaria2
 Belgium3
 Czechoslovakia
Prague, Czechoslovakia (clay)
bye
 Czechoslovakia5
Dublin, Ireland
 Ireland0
 Iran2
 Ireland3

First round

Poland vs. Norway


Poland
5
Poznań, Poland[5]
24–26 September 1976
Clay

Norway
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Tadeusz Nowicki
Per Hegna
6
3
6
3
6
2
     
2
Wojciech Fibak
Olav Abrahamsen
6
0
6
0
6
0
     
3
Wojciech Fibak / Jacek Niedźwiedzki
Per Hegna / Jan Munch-Søegaard
6
0
8
6
6
3
     
4
Tadeusz Nowicki
Olav Abrahamsen
6
2
6
2
6
1
     
5
Wojciech Fibak
Per Hegna
6
1
5
7
7
5
6
3
   

Switzerland vs. Rhodesia


Switzerland
3
Biel, Switzerland[6]
24–26 September 1976

Rhodesia
2
1 2 3 4 5
1
Heinz Günthardt
Desmond McKenzie
6
1
6
2
6
0
     
2
Max Hürlimann
Colin Dowdeswell
5
7
5
7
6
0
3
6
   
3
Heinz Günthardt / Petr Kanderal
Colin Dowdeswell / Sheridan Towers
8
6
10
8
6
4
     
4
Heinz Günthardt
Colin Dowdeswell
6
0
7
9
2
6
3
6
   
5
Max Hürlimann
Desmond McKenzie
6
2
6
1
6
0
     

Belgium vs. Bulgaria


Belgium
3
Brussels, Belgium[7]
17–19 September 1976

Bulgaria
2
1 2 3 4 5
1
Bernard Mignot
Ljuben Genov
6
1
2
6
6
3
1
6
0
6
 
2
Patrick Hombergen
Bozhidar Pampoulov
8
6
6
1
5
7
4
6
6
0
 
3
Patrick Hombergen / Bernard Mignot
Bozhidar Pampoulov / Matei Pampoulov
6
3
6
4
6
2
     
4
Bernard Mignot
Matei Pampoulov
6
2
6
4
6
4
     
5
Patrick Hombergen
Ljuben Genov
6
2
3
6
6
4
3
6
1
6
 

Ireland vs. Iran


Ireland
3
Dublin, Ireland[8]
24–26 September 1976

Iran
2
1 2 3 4 5
1
Sean Sorensen
Mansour Bahrami
7
5
9
11
3
6
6
2
2
6
 
2
James McArdle
Kamyab Derafshijavan
6
4
6
2
4
6
15
17
6
3
 
3
Michael Hickey / Sean Sorensen
Mansour Bahrami / Kamyab Derafshijavan
6
2
2
6
6
4
6
4
   
4
Sean Sorensen
Kamyab Derafshijavan
7
5
6
3
6
3
     
5
James McArdle
Mansour Bahrami
3
6
9
11
2
6
     

Qualifying round

Poland vs. West Germany


Poland
3
Warsaw, Poland[9]
22–24 April 1977

West Germany
1
1 2 3 4 5
1
Jacek Niedźwiedzki
Ulrich Pinner
9
11
2
6
1
6
     
2
Wojciech Fibak
Karl Meiler
6
0
6
1
6
1
     
3
Wojciech Fibak / Tadeusz Nowicki
Jürgen Fassbender / Karl Meiler
4
6
8
10
6
3
6
4
6
3
 
4
Wojciech Fibak
Ulrich Pinner
10
8
6
3
6
4
     
5
Jacek Niedźwiedzki
Karl Meiler
          not
played

Switzerland vs. France


Switzerland
2
Zürich, Switzerland[10]
19–21 March 1977

France
3
1 2 3 4 5
1
Petr Kanderal
Patrice Dominguez
3
6
14
16
4
6
     
2
Heinz Günthardt
Jean-Louis Haillet
3
6
3
6
3
6
     
3
Petr Kanderal / Dimitri Sturdza
Patrice Dominguez / Jean-Louis Haillet
6
4
7
9
6
4
1
6
4
6
 
4
Petr Kanderal
Jean-Louis Haillet
15
13
7
5
2
6
6
3
   
5
Heinz Günthardt
Patrice Dominguez
8
6
6
3
10
8
     

Romania vs. Belgium


Romania
5
Bucharest, Romania[11]
28 April–1 May 1977
Clay

Belgium
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Ilie Năstase
Bernard Boileau
6
1
6
4
6
1
     
2
Dumitru Hărădău
Jean-Pierre Richer
6
1
6
3
6
3
     
3
Ilie Năstase / Ion Țiriac
Johan De Muynck / Thierry Stevaux
6
2
6
1
6
4
     
4
Dumitru Hărădău
Bernard Boileau
6
1
6
2
6
3
     
5
Ilie Năstase
Jean-Pierre Richer
6
2
6
2
6
2
     

Czechoslovakia vs. Ireland


Czechoslovakia
5
Prague, Czechoslovakia[12]
22–24 April 1977
Clay

Ireland
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Tomáš Šmíd
Peter Ledbetter
6
0
6
0
6
2
     
2
Jiří Hřebec
James McArdle
6
0
6
1
6
2
     
3
Jiří Granát / Tomáš Šmíd
James McArdle / John O'Brien
6
0
6
0
6
2
     
4
Jiří Hřebec
Peter Ledbetter
6
0
6
1
6
0
     
5
František Pála
James McArdle
6
2
6
3
6
0
     

Main draw

Draw

Quarterfinals
6–8 May
Semifinals
9–11 June
Final
23–25 July
 Soviet Union
bye
 Soviet Union
Warsaw, Poland
 Francew/o
 Poland0
Paris, France (clay)
 France5
 France3
Bucharest, Romania (clay)
 Romania2
 Romania3
Bucharest, Romania (clay)
 Czechoslovakia1
 Romania4
 Great Britain1
bye
 Great Britain

Quarterfinals

Poland vs. France


Poland
0
Warsaw, Poland[13]
6–8 May 1977

France
5
1 2 3 4 5
1
Henryk Drzymalski
Patrice Dominguez
6
8
2
6
4
6
     
2
Tadeusz Nowicki
François Jauffret
0
6
0
6
2
6
     
3
Jacek Niedźwiedzki / Tadeusz Nowicki
Patrice Dominguez / François Jauffret
8
6
8
10
6
1
3
6
2
6
 
4
Tadeusz Nowicki
Patrice Dominguez
6
3
5
7
6
8
7
9
   
5
Henryk Drzymalski
François Jauffret
4
6
0
6
       

Romania vs. Czechoslovakia


Romania
3
Bucharest, Romania[14]
6–8 May 1977
Clay

Czechoslovakia
1
1 2 3 4 5
1
Dumitru Hărădău
Jan Kodeš
6
2
2
6
2
6
3
6
   
2
Ilie Năstase
Jiří Hřebec
6
1
1
0
       
retired
3
Ilie Năstase / Ion Țiriac
Jiří Hřebec / Jan Kodeš
6
1
6
3
6
3
     
4
Ilie Năstase
Jan Kodeš
6
2
6
2
6
4
     
5
Dumitru Hărădău
Jiří Hřebec
1
6
6
3
      not
completed

Semifinals

France vs. Soviet Union

Due to their refusal to play against Chile in the 1976 Inter-Zonal semifinals, the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1977 tournament. Therefore, France were declared winners by default and progressed to the final.[15][16]

Romania vs. Great Britain


Romania
4
Bucharest, Romania[17]
9–11 June 1977
Clay

Great Britain
1
1 2 3 4 5
1
Ilie Năstase
John Feaver
6
1
6
2
4
6
6
4
   
2
Dumitru Hărădău
John Lloyd
2
6
7
5
6
0
6
1
   
3
Ilie Năstase / Ion Țiriac
David Lloyd / John Lloyd
9
7
2
6
6
4
9
7
   
4
Gavorielle Marcu
Richard Lewis
6
4
1
6
1
6
3
6
   
5
Dumitru Hărădău
John Feaver
5
7
6
3
4
6
6
1
6
3
 

Final

France vs. Romania


France
3
Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France[2]
23–25 July 1977
Clay

Romania
2
1 2 3 4 5
1
François Jauffret
Ilie Năstase
3
6
0
6
6
4
6
3
6
1
 
2
Patrick Proisy
Dumitru Hărădău
6
2
6
4
8
6
     
3
Patrice Dominguez / François Jauffret
Ilie Năstase / Ion Țiriac
3
6
4
6
6
3
5
7
   
4
François Jauffret
Dumitru Hărădău
6
1
6
4
6
4
     
5
Patrick Proisy
Ilie Năstase
4
6
6
4
6
8
1
6
   

Zone B

Pre-qualifying rounds

Draw

First RoundQualifying Round
 Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel (hard)
bye
 Israel5
 Turkey0
 Kenya
 Turkeyw/o
 Luxembourg
Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg
bye
 Luxembourg0
 Finland5
bye
 Finland

Qualifying round

Israel vs. Turkey


Israel
5
Tel Aviv, Israel[18]
17–19 September 1976
Hard

Turkey
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Shlomo Glickstein
Murat Gürler
6
5
6
1
6
0
     
2
Yair Wertheimer
Cahit Ataş
6
0
6
0
6
2
     
3
Ilan Sher / Yair Wertheimer
Murat Gürler / Ali Yenilmez
6
1
6
1
6
0
     
4
Yair Wertheimer
Murat Gürler
6
1
6
3
6
1
     
5
Shlomo Glickstein
Ali Yenilmez
6
0
6
3
6
0
     

Luxembourg vs. Finland


Luxembourg
0
Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg[19]
28–30 August 1976

Finland
5
1 2 3 4 5
1
Fernand Claude
Leo Palin
3
6
2
6
2
6
     
2
Marc Weitzel
George Berner
0
6
0
6
1
6
     
3
Fernand Claude / Marc Weitzel
George Berner / Pekka Säilä
0
6
3
6
1
6
     
4
Pascal Genevo
Leo Palin
1
6
2
6
1
6
     
5
Fernand Claude
George Berner
2
6
1
6
1
6
     

Preliminary rounds

Draw

First RoundQualifying Round
Scheveningen, Netherlands (clay)
 Netherlands5
Scheveningen, Netherlands (clay)
 Israel0
 Netherlands0
 Yugoslavia5
bye
 Yugoslavia
Athens, Greece (clay)
 Greece3
Athens, Greece
 Denmark1
 Greece0
 Spain5
bye
 Spain
 Sweden
Uppsala, Sweden (indoor hard)
bye
 Sweden5
Lisbon, Portugal (clay)
 Monaco0
 Portugal1
 Monaco4
Vienna, Austria
 Austria5
Vienna, Austria
 Finland0
 Austria5
 Egypt0
bye
 Egypt

First round

Netherlands vs. Israel


Netherlands
5
Scheveningen, Netherlands[20]
24–26 September 1976
Clay

Israel
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Louk Sanders
Shlomo Glickstein
6
2
6
4
6
1
     
2
Fred Hemmes
Yair Wertheimer
5
7
8
6
1
6
6
4
6
0
 
3
Fred Hemmes / Louk Sanders
Shlomo Glickstein / Yair Wertheimer
4
6
6
2
6
2
6
2
   
4
Fred Hemmes
Shlomo Glickstein
6
4
6
2
6
4
     
5
Louk Sanders
Yair Wertheimer
6
3
6
0
6
1
     

Greece vs. Denmark


Greece
3
Athens, Greece[21]
24–26 September 1976
Clay

Denmark
1
1 2 3 4 5
1
Nicolas Kelaidis
Carl-Edvard Hedelund
6
3
4
6
6
8
6
3
10
8
 
2
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos
Tom Christensen
6
1
6
3
6
4
     
3
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos / Nicolas Kelaidis
Tom Christensen / Carl-Edvard Hedelund
2
6
4
6
2
6
     
4
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos
Carl-Edvard Hedelund
6
2
6
3
6
4
     
5
Nicolas Kelaidis
Tom Christensen
4
6
6
1
7
5
7
9
  not
completed

Portugal vs. Monaco


Portugal
1
Estádio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal[22]
24–26 September 1976
Clay

Monaco
4
1 2 3 4 5
1
José Vilela
Bernard Balleret
6
0
2
6
3
6
3
6
   
2
Sergio Cruz
Louis Borfiga
2
6
4
6
3
6
     
3
Raúl Peralta / José Vilela
Bernard Balleret / Louis Borfiga
1
6
5
7
2
6
     
4
Sergio Cruz
Bernard Balleret
7
5
5
7
7
5
3
6
2
6
 
5
José Vilela
Louis Borfiga
4
6
2
6
6
4
3
2
   
retired

Austria vs. Finland


Austria
5
Vienna, Austria[23]
24–26 September 1976

Finland
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Peter Feigl
Pekka Säilä
6
4
6
2
6
3
     
2
Hans Kary
Matti Timonen
6
4
6
2
6
3
     
3
Hans Kary / Cliff Letcher
George Berner / Pekka Säilä
10
8
6
1
6
2
     
4
Peter Feigl
Matti Timonen
6
2
6
4
6
4
     
5
Hans Kary
Pekka Säilä
6
1
6
1
6
3
     

Qualifying round

Netherlands vs. Yugoslavia


Netherlands
0
Scheveningen, Netherlands[24]
22–24 April 1977
Clay

Yugoslavia
5
1 2 3 4 5
1
Fred Hemmes
Nikola Pilić
0
6
3
6
2
6
     
2
Louk Sanders
Željko Franulović
6
3
1
6
4
6
7
5
2
6
 
3
Louk Sanders / Rolf Thung
Željko Franulović / Nikola Pilić
0
6
7
9
6
3
4
6
   
4
Fred Hemmes
Željko Franulović
4
6
2
6
6
4
1
6
   
5
Louk Sanders
Nikola Pilić
5
7
3
6
2
6
     

Greece vs. Spain


Greece
0
Athens, Greece[25]
1–3 April 1977

Spain
5
1 2 3 4 5
1
Nicolas Kelaidis
José Higueras
0
6
0
6
1
6
     
2
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos
Manuel Orantes
1
6
2
6
0
6
     
3
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos / Nicolas Kelaidis
Antonio Muñoz / Javier Soler
3
6
6
3
2
6
6
8
   
4
Nicholas Kalogeropoulos
José Higueras
4
6
0
6
2
6
     
5
Nicolas Kelaidis
Manuel Orantes
2
6
3
6
2
6
     

Sweden vs. Monaco


Sweden
5
Fyrishallen, Uppsala, Sweden[26]
15–17 April 1977
Hard (indoors)

Monaco
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Rolf Norberg
Bernard Balleret
9
7
3
6
6
4
6
3
   
2
Kjell Johansson
Louis Borfiga
6
1
6
1
6
1
     
3
Jan Norbäck / Douglas Palm
Bernard Balleret / Louis Borfiga
7
5
6
2
6
2
     
4
Rolf Norberg
Louis Borfiga
6
3
6
2
6
2
     
5
Kjell Johansson
Bernard Balleret
6
1
6
1
6
2
     

Austria vs. Egypt


Austria
5
Vienna, Austria[27]
22–24 April 1977

Egypt
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Cliff Letcher
Abdel-Ghani Mohammed
6
0
6
0
6
1
     
2
Hans Kary
Ismail El Shafei
6
2
7
5
3
6
6
3
   
3
Hans Kary / Cliff Letcher
Tarek-Shawki El Sakka / Ismail El Shafei
6
2
6
2
7
9
6
2
   
4
Hans Kary
Tarek-Shawki El Sakka
6
2
6
0
6
2
     
5
Cliff Letcher
Ismail El Shafei
6
2
6
2
6
0
     

Main draw

Draw

Quarterfinals
6–8 May
Semifinals
15–25 July
Final
29 July–1 August
 Hungary
Budapest, Hungary
bye
 Hungary2
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
 Spain3
 Yugoslavia1
Barcelona, Spain
 Spain4
 Spain2
Stockholm, Sweden (indoor carpet)
 Italy3
 Sweden5
Båstad, Sweden (clay)
 Austria0
 Sweden1
 Italy4
bye
 Italy

Quarterfinals

Yugoslavia vs. Spain


Yugoslavia
1
Belgrade, Yugoslavia[28]
6–8 May 1977

Spain
4
1 2 3 4 5
1
Zoltan Ilin
Manuel Orantes
1
6
3
6
2
6
     
2
Nikola Pilić
José Higueras
6
3
6
2
6
1
     
3
Zoltan Ilin / Nikola Pilić
Antonio Muñoz / Manuel Orantes
5
7
6
3
2
6
6
8
   
4
Zoltan Ilin
José Higueras
3
6
1
6
6
4
2
6
   
5
Nikola Pilić
Manuel Orantes
5
7
2
6
2
6
     

Sweden vs. Austria


Sweden
5
Kungliga tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden[29]
6–8 May 1997
Carpet (indoors)

Austria
0
1 2 3 4 5
1
Rolf Norberg
Cliff Letcher
4
6
4
6
6
3
6
2
6
2
 
2
Kjell Johansson
Hans Kary
4
6
7
5
6
4
6
3
   
3
Ove Bengtson / Rolf Norberg
Hans Kary / Cliff Letcher
6
4
6
4
6
3
     
4
Rolf Norberg
Peter Feigl
9
7
6
4
6
4
     
5
Kjell Johansson
Cliff Letcher
6
1
6
3
6
3
     

Semifinals

Hungary vs. Spain


Hungary
2
Budapest, Hungary[30]
29 July–1 August 1977

Spain
3
1 2 3 4 5
1
János Benyik
José Higueras
4
6
1
6
1
6
     
2
Balázs Taróczy
Manuel Orantes
7
5
4
6
1
6
6
1
6
1
 
3
Péter Szőke / Balázs Taróczy
José Higueras / Manuel Orantes
6
2
6
3
4
6
6
1
   
4
János Benyik
Manuel Orantes
9
11
3
6
2
6
     
5
Balázs Taróczy
José Higueras
6
0
6
8
4
6
4
6
   

Sweden vs. Italy


Sweden
1
Båstad Tennis Stadium, Båstad, Sweden[31]
23–25 July 1977
Clay

Italy
4
1 2 3 4 5
1
Birger Andersson
Adriano Panatta
5
7
4
6
4
6
     
2
Rolf Norberg
Corrado Barazzutti
3
6
1
6
2
6
     
3
Jan Norbäck / Rolf Norberg
Paolo Bertolucci / Adriano Panatta
3
6
3
6
6
3
4
6
   
4
Jan Norbäck
Antonio Zugarelli
6
1
3
6
6
2
6
2
   
5
Birger Andersson
Corrado Barazzutti
6
4
2
6
1
6
3
6
   

Final

Spain vs. Italy


Spain
2
Barcelona, Spain[3]
15–17 July 1977

Italy
3
1 2 3 4 5
1
José Higueras
Corrado Barazzutti
6
4
6
4
6
3
     
2
Manuel Orantes
Adriano Panatta
4
6
6
3
3
6
1
6
   
3
José Higueras / Antonio Muñoz
Paolo Bertolucci / Adriano Panatta
4
6
5
7
4
6
     
4
Manuel Orantes
Corrado Barazzutti
5
7
5
7
1
6
     
5
Javier Soler
Adriano Panatta
6
1
6
0
       

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