It's always been called the Davis Cup since its inception in 1900
Yes, the players do get paid by their national football association, however the exact amount is rarely disclosed. The players would usually get performance bonuses which reflect how well the team progressed through the tournament.
Usually a "rubber match" or "rubber game" of a 3 game series is only played if no one has a chance to sweep the series. If team A wins game 1 and team B wins game 2, it shows game 3 can go either way... Sorta like how rubber can bend either way.
Thus, "Rubber game" of the series.
According to Paul Dickson's The New Dickson's Baseball Dictionary (Harcourt Brace, 1999), a "rubber game" is "The last and deciding game of a series when the previous games have been split; e.g., the seventh game of the World Series." This tie-breaking sense of "rubber" apparently originated in the pulse-pounding English game of "bowls," or lawn bowling. Despite its name, bowls has little in common with American bowling, and consists of rolling wooden balls (called "bowls") across a level green, the object being to get your ball as close as possible to (but not to hit) a little white ball at the other end of the green. "Rubber" in its tie-breaking sense first appeared in the context of bowls around 1599, and was in use by the card-playing crowd (whist, bridge, etc.) by 1744. A set of three games of bridge is still generally referred to as a "rubber."
Unfortunately, no one knows where "rubber" in this sense came from. It appears to be unrelated to the elastic sort of "rubber." (Incidentally, our modern elastic "rubber" is short for "India-rubber," from its original source in the East Indies. "Rubber" previously meant anything used to rub, smooth or clean.) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ventures that the term may have referred to two "bowls" rubbing together, a fatal error in the game of bowls. Or it might be a metaphorical use of "rubber" (something that expunges) referring to the "sudden death" third game of a series, the loss of which would conclusively "rub out" the losing team's hopes. But there is, sad to say, no solid evidence for either theory."
I think that 'rubber match' will mean the match that will decide the rubber ie the fifth in a series of five. The term rubber doesn't itself mean decisive.
Right now...Pete Sampras is at the top with 14 Grand Slam titles, next is Roger Federer.
But when I research (on wikipedia), they discussed that Bill Tilden was the greatest player...then there is Donald Budge who is the 1st person to win all four grand slam titles...
that's all I know so I really have no idea who is the 1st person to rank #1 in tennis.
The United States, though can't give the exact number.
The United States has not won the most by a long chalk. They may have won the most since it became professional, but the country that has won it the most times is Great Britain, who won it uninterruptedly from 1877 until 1906, then in 1908 and 1909. They won it again in 1934, 1935 and 1936, making a total of 35 times. The US won it for the first time in 1920.
Laver won 2 true Full Grand Slams - that is, he won all four Major titles - Wimbledon, the French, US and Australian - in the same calendar year twice: in 1962 and in 1969. He is the only player in history to do so.
He is also the only player in history to win the full grand slam in singles titles and also win a grand slam doubles title in that same calendar year, being in 1969: partnered by the great Roy Emerson, the two won the Australian Open.
In total, Laver won 11 grand slam singles events and 6 grand slam doubles titles, making him probably the most "complete" player in history to date.
During the earlier 1960's, while major tennis players were divided into 'professional' circuits as opposed to 'amateur' circuits, Laver was also the only person ever to win the 'grand slam' of professional tennis, in 1967: so one could effectively say that technically, he won 3 Grand Slams in major tennis worldwide!!!
Such feats, of course, are never likely to ever be repeated.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is a famous black french tennnis player. Gael Monfils is also a famous black french tennis player.
None - the women's tennis equivalent is the Fed Cup.
Historically, United States and Australia stand head and shoulders above the rest of the field in terms of successful performances.
However, the United Kingdom has also entered every Davis Cup since its inception in 1900.
Technically the ATP season ends some time after the U.S. Open so it is the last Grand Slam Tournament played, but in the next season the Australian Open is the next Grand Slam tournament played after the US Open.
Tennis.
It is the most important annual competition in mens tennis played between teams of male tennis players representing their country.
Dwight F Davis purchased the original Cup from his own funds and so the event was eventually named in his honour.
Davis Cup team tennis is an men's international competition that takes place every year. At various times throughout the year countries compete against one another, eliminating the loser until a country is crowned champion. Each contest between countries consists of 4 singles and 1 doubles match with the winners of each of the five matches earning 1 point for their country in the overall contest.
Given that the Davis Cup recognizes only countries, not people,
and since there are no countries named "black" (or, at least, none currently assigned to play the Davis Cup),
the answer is: there have been no black winners of the Davis Cup.
a tie is the entire weekedns matches and a rubber is 1 of the matches played over that weekend
Australia over United States 3:2. Highlights can be seen from time to time on Tennis Channel.