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. == Results and fixtures==