Most Davis Cup Matches Played

At the top of the Davis Cup “most played” list stands Ilie Nastase, with 90 Davis Cup matches played between 1968 and 1984. His record remains the benchmark for national-team durability in the Open Era.

Second on the list is Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan with 73 matches, while India’s Leander Paes is third with 70. Paes’ Davis Cup career stretched from 1990 to 2008, making him one of the competition’s longest-serving singles specialists.

The next positions are held by Italy’s Adriano Panatta with 63 matches and Thailand’s Danai Udomchoke with 61. Their totals underline how Davis Cup rewards players who are available for ties over many years.

This record is about national-team longevity more than individual tour success: it measures the players who returned to Davis Cup year after year, across home-and-away ties, and who became fixtures of their country’s team selection.