Argentina will receive Belarus the Saturday and Sunday next by the Davis Cup, in a series that will be attended by the public in the stands, as officially announced by the Argentine Tennis Association (AAT). In this way, the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club will have available up to a 70 percent of its total capacity of 3,500 spectators.
In this context, the series valid for the playoffs from reclassification to the World Group It will be played with fans who can acquire up to 1.800 entries for each day from tonight when they go on sale through Ticketek, according to the entity that governs national tennis.
Tennis fans will only be able to purchase Subscriptions with prizes from 4,800 pesos and with a 20 percent discount for AAT members. It should be noted that the spectators who will attend the complex located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo to witness the weekend’s series should respect current health protocols to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Davis Cup key between Argentina and Belarus will begin to take more color from Wednesday at 12 noon with the first practice of the “albiceleste” team that will be open to the press and of which the captain will take part Gaston Gaudio and the five tennis players chosen for the occasion: Diego Schwartzman, Federico Coria, Guido Pella, Horacio Zeballos and Máximo González.
In addition, the Argentine team will have the collaboration of Francisco Cerúndolo for Wednesday and Thursday practices in double shift (from 12 to 15 and from 17:30 to 19:30).
For its part, the cast chosen by Aliaksandr Vasileuski, the visiting captain, how many youthful protagonists: Martin Borisiouk (21 years old, 1325 singles and 891 doubles), Alexander Zgirovsky (20 years old, 1138 in singles and 1241 in doubles), Erik Arutiunian (16 years old, 36 in the ITF Junior ranking) and Daniil Ostapenkov (18 years old, 60 ITF Junior).
Argentina champion of the Davis Cup once in its history, in 2016 on Zagreb (3-2 to Croatia in the final), with the team that had as captain Daniel Orsanic and had in that definition the tandilense Juan Martin del Potro, the stellar figure, more Leonardo Mayer, the bahiense Pella and Federico Delbonis, the hero of the series with his victory in the fifth point over the Croatian giant Ivo Karlovic.
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