Austria Davis Cup team

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Austria
Flag of Austria.svg
Captain Stefan Koubek
ITF ranking 16 Steady2.svg (6 December 2021)
ColorsRed & White
First year 1905
Years played86
Ties played (W–L)161 (77–84)
Years in
World Group		19 (6–18)
Best finishSemifinal (1990)
Most total wins Thomas Muster (45–18)
Most singles winsThomas Muster (36–8)
Most doubles wins Jürgen Melzer (15–12)
Best doubles teamThomas Muster /
Alex Antonitsch (9–7)
Most ties played Jürgen Melzer (38)
Most years playedJürgen Melzer (22)

The Austria Davis Cup team represents Austria in the Davis Cup and is governed by the Austrian Tennis Federation. In 2010, Austria was re-promoted to the World Group after being relegated to the Europa/Africa Zone Group I only one year earlier. In 2012, Austria advanced to the World Group quarterfinals for the first time since 1995, eventually losing against Spain.

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History

Austria competed in its first Davis Cup in 1905.

The Austrian team achieved their best Davis Cup result in 1990, when they were on the brink of reaching the final, playing their semi final against the USA on clay in Vienna, with a team consisting of Thomas Muster, Horst Skoff and Alex Antonitsch. After Muster had won his singles rubbers against Michael Chang and Andre Agassi, the standing in the tie was 2:2. Skoff and Chang met each other in the decisive fifth rubber, with Skoff taking a 2 set lead, and trying to close out the third set as the daylight faded. Skoff failed to do this and Chang took the third set, with the match then postponed until the next day, with Skoff leading 2 sets to 1 overnight. Skoff needed to win 1 more set to send Austria into the final, but the final 2 sets were both won by Chang, so Austria went out and the USA reached the final.

Current squad

Squad representing Austria at the 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers first round
PlayerWin–lossFirst
year		TiesRanking
SglDblTotalSglDbl
Jurij Rodionov 5–50–05–520198155264
Lukas Neumayer 2–00–02–020242219963
Filip Misolic 2–00–02–0202223141051
Lucas Miedler 1–06–17–120227112544
Alexander Erler 0–06–16–120227–42

* Statistics are as of 2 February 2025.

Recent performances

Here is the list of all match-ups since 1981, when the competition started being held in the current World Group format.

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

YearCompetitionDateLocationOpponentScoreResult
2020 Qualifying round 6–7 Mar Premstätten (AUT)Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 3–1Win
2021 Finals, Group stage26 Nov Innsbruck (AUT)Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 0–3Loss
28 NovFlag of Germany.svg  Germany 1–2Loss
2022 Qualifying round 4–5 Mar Seoul (KOR)Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1–3Loss
World Group I 16–17 Sep Tulln an der Donau (AUT)Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 4–0Win
2023 Qualifying round 4–5 Feb Rijeka (CRO)Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 1–3Loss
World Group I 15–16 Sep Schwechat (AUT)Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1–3Loss
2024 World Group I play-offs 3–4 Feb Limerick (IRL)Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 4–0Win
World Group I 13–14 Sep Bad Waltersdorf (AUT)Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3–0Win
2025 Qualifiers first round 31 Jan–1 Feb Schwechat (AUT)Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 4–0Win
Qualifiers second round 12–13 SepTBA (HUN)Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary

Player records

Most total wins overall
#PlayerYearsWin–lossTies
played		Years
played
SinglesDoublesTotal
1 Thomas Muster 1984–199736–89–1045–182412
2 Jürgen Melzer 1999–202022–2915–1237–413822
3 Hans Kary 1969–198322–1511–1033–252614
4 Franz Matejka 1927–193420–92–422–13158
Franz Saiko 1954–196218–84–522–13159
Horst Skoff 1986–199421–131–422–17199
7 Stefan Koubek 1998–201120–190–020–192213
8 Peter Feigl 1976–198512–127–619–18159
Alex Antonitsch 1984–19966–813–1419–222713
10 Hermann Artens 1927–193414–134–918–22158
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