The Valencian tennis player Pedro Martínez will join the discipline of the Spanish team in the Davis Cup hours before the debut.
Pedro Martínez is the replacement
The fight to defend the title was very complicated for Sergi Bruguera’s men after Roberto Bautista’s absence due to abdominal problems, but to this is added that Carlos Alcaraz tested positive for a PCR and with which, he had to be forced to leave of the expedition. With which, the 24-year-old tennis player has been chosen to be able to debut as a Davis Cup player with very little time to adapt to the Casa de Campo court where they will debut against Ecuador starting at 4:00 p.m. this Friday 26 of November. You will hardly be able to do a workout with your peers.
He ends the season as No. 60 in the world, two places behind his best ranking, which he achieved on October 25. There have been 17 victories and 19 defeats in 2021 where he reached his first ATP final during the summer in Kitzbuhel. Casper Ruud was the only tennis player who could stop him. Still, this year he knows what it’s like to lift the Seville Challenger title on brick dust. However, the indoor hard court, the place where the Davis Cup is held, is not Pedro’s favorite surface, although at the ATP 250 in Saint Petersburg he was able to reach the quarterfinals by beating tennis players like Guido Pella and Filip Krajinovic.
The problems grow for Sergi Bruguera and now he will have to formulate another operation to see who occupies that position of individual No.2 for the match that opens the day. Albert Ramos Vinolas would be the one but Feliciano López could also enter, who grows up in these types of appointments as well as being a surface that can go well. Marcel Granollers seems to be the mainstay in the double and No. 1 is Pablo Carreño.
