From November 25 to December 5, the world’s greatest tennis show by nations will bring together many great stars on the planet.
Diario As
Two years later, due to the cancellation suffered in 2020 due to the pandemic, the Davis Cup finals return. From November 25 to December 5, the greatest show of tennis by nations in the world will bring together many great stars of the planet to the delight of fans.
All this, with some small changes introduced for this 2021 edition, which we review daily below. AS from Spain.
Venues
The premiere of the Davis Cup finals in 2019 took place entirely in Madrid, but for this occasion the round robin The group stage of this final phase will take place at three venues simultaneously: Madrid, Innsbruck (Austria) and Turin (Italy).
- During this period of competition, the Madrid Arena will be the stage where the action of groups A and B will take place. The installation is located in the Casa de Campo enclosure in the capital of Spain, a stage that from 2002 to 2008 hosted the Masters 1000 in Madrid, in addition to many other sporting events.
- The OlimpiaWorld in Innsbruck will be the sports facility where the matches corresponding to groups C and F. are played. The facility is the city’s sports and cultural epicenter and hosts a large number of events throughout the year.
- The imposing Pala Alpitour Arena, with a capacity for 18,500 spectators, will be the stage where groups D and E compete. The pavilion is located south of Turin, very close to the Olympic stadium, it was inaugurated in 2005 and the competition of Ice hockey at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics. It also hosted the ATP Finals of the men’s circuit last week.
Madrid – Spain (from 25 to 28 November)
Group A
Spain: Roberto Bautista, Pablo Carreño, Carlos Alcaraz, Marcel Granollers, Feliciano López.
Russia: Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Aslan Karatsev, Karen Khachanov, Evgeny Donskoy.
Ecuador: Emilio Gómez, Roberto Quiroz, Diego Hidalgo, Gonzalo Escobar, Cayetano March.
B Group
Canada: Felix Auger-Aliassime, Denis Shapovalov, Vasek Pospisil, Brayden Schnur, Peter Polansky.
Kazakhstan: Alexander Bublik, Mikhail Kukushkin, Dmitry Popko, Aleksander Nedovyesov, Andrey Golubev.
Sweden: Mikael Ymer, Elias Ymer, Jonathan Mridha, André Göransson.
Innsbruck – Austria (November 25-28)
Group C
France: Ugo Humbert, Arthur Rinderknech, Richard Gasquet, Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Nicolas Mahut.
United Kingdom: Daniel Evans, Cameron Norrie, Joe Salisbury, Neal Skupski, Liam Broady.
Czech Republic: Jiri Vesely, Tomas Machac, Zdanek Kolar, Jiri Lehecka, Lukas Rosol.
Group F
Austria: Dennis Novak, Yuri Rodionov, Gerald Melzer, Olivier Marach, Peter Oswald.
Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Filip Krajinovic, Dusan Lajovic, Laslo Djere, Miomir Kecmanovic.
Germany: Jan-Lennard Struff, Dominik Koepfer, Peter Gojowczyk, Kevin Krawietz, Tim Puetz.
Turin – Italy (November 25-28)
Group D
Croatia: Marin Cilic, Borna Coric, Borna Gojo, Nikola Mektic, Mate Pavic.
Australia: Alex de Miñaur, John Millman, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, John Peers.
Hungary: Marton Fucsovics, Attila Balazs, Zsombor Piros, Fabian Marozsan, Mate Valkusz.
Group E
EE. UU .: John Isner, Reilly Opelka, Taylor Fritz, Rajeev Ram, Jack Sock.
Italy: Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Sonego, Fabio Fognini, Lorenzo Musetti, Simone Bolelli.
Colombia: Daniel Galán, Nico Mejía, Juan Sebastián Cabal, Robert Farah.
Rules and format
The Davis Cup finals are made up of 18 teams that are divided into six groups of three teams each. The different groups have been formed as follows:
- 12 winners of the 2020 qualifying round (Germany, Australia, Austria, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, United States, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic and Sweden).
- The semifinalists of the last edition (2019): Spain, Canada, Great Britain, and Russia.
- Two invited countries: France and Serbia. (D)
