Eliminated in the group stage at the last edition of the Davis Cup at the end of November, the France team will have to earn its place for the next final phase in a qualifying round, which will oppose it to Ecuador, the March 4 and 5.
The French Federation formalized on Saturday the choice of the host city, which will be Pau. The meeting will take place at the Palais des Sports, which will just host the city’s Challenger tournament (Open Teréga, from February 21 to 27), led by Jérémy Chardy. The venues, usually intended for the Élan Béarnais basketball club, will thus be in tennis configuration for a little over two weeks and will be able to accommodate nearly 7,500 spectators per day. The court will be a tough indoor one.
First Davis Cup meeting in France since 2018
This will be the first Davis Cup meeting on French soil since the 2018 final, lost in Lille against Croatia (1-3), and it will be the sixth time that Pau will be the setting for a meeting of the France team, 31 years after the very first time. In 1991, France beat Yugoslavia in the semi-finals.
The format of this meeting, the winner of which will be the first team to three wins: two singles on Friday then a double and two other singles (if necessary) on Saturday. As a reminder, the Ecuadorian n ° 1 and 2 are, at the moment, Emilio Gomez (148th ATP) and Roberto Quiroz (298th).
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