The Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET) has announced that el Puente Romano Hotel Tennis Club in Marbella It will host the Davis Cup tie between Spain and Romania, on March 4 and 5, which will give a place for the November Finals, still without an announced location.
The RFET emphasizes that “it wants to make a heartfelt tribute to the figure of the recently disappeared Manolo santana, linked to the Puente Romano Tennis Club and Marbella for more than 20 years, when he discovered the city at the hands of his friend Bjorn Borg “.
The federative proposal is pending the approval of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), a procedure given that the Andalusian city already has experience in the tournament, which it hosted in the Plaza de Toros de Puerto Banús in 2009 and in the Puente Romano in 1989 and 2018. The latter with a victory over Great Britain on clay, the surface chosen again.
Spain lost in the group stage of the last Finals, at the Madrid Arena, and did not receive one of the two invitations granted by the Kosmos Group of Gerard Piqué and the ITF, which were intended to Serbia, for the second consecutive edition, and Britain.
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The campoena and finalist selections are also classified, Russia and Croatia, respectively. There will be 16 teams divided into four groups of four, the best two qualifying. The idea of the organization is that there are five venues: four for each of the groups and a “neutral” final.
Captain Sergi Bruguera chose in his last convocation to Pablo CarreñThe, Roberto Bautista, replaced by Pedro Martínez when he was injured, Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image, which could not debut due to a positive in Covid, yielding its place to Albert Ramos, Feliciano López and Marcel Granollers. Reef Nadal it was ruled out because of the problem in the left foot.
