No margin for error – AS.com

No margin of error. This is how Spain will face this Sunday (16:00) his third and last round of the group stage of the Davis cup in the Fonteta de Valencia. The quarter ticket might already be stamped, but the defeat on Friday against Canada, in a tie that was on track after the victory of Baptist on Pospisil in the first duel, with the first set in favor of Alcaraz against Auger-Aliassime and then in the decisive doubles, in which Granollers and Martínez started ahead and went on to have a 4-2 lead in the third set.

But those missed opportunities they are already past water and the Navy continues to have, fortunately, the ticket to the qualifying rounds in Malaga (from November 22 to 27) In his hand. The bills are simple before South Korea, debutant in a Finals: we have to win. To achieve victory, first place in the group would be dyed red and yellow, regardless of whether it is 2-1 or the plenary is achieved.

That is due to the Canada’s defeat yesterday at the hands of Serbia, in a tie that began with the semi-unknown Gabriel Diallo falling at the hands of Laslo Djere (double 6-2), followed with the triumph of a Auger-Also plethoric, like Friday against Alcaraz, over Kecmanovic (6-3 and 6-4)and ended with withdrawal of the Canadians in the doubles due to injury of Vasek Pospisil, who has ended up paying the tute to which he has been subjected, along with Auger, by the American captain, Frank Dancevic. Both had shared, until Diallo’s entry in the first point against Serbia, the six games played by this team in Valencia. In fact, Pospisil already had to be treated on Friday in the third set of his match against Bautista, and yesterday he finished breaking although the extent of the injury is unknown.

Be that as it may, the result of that tie it is good both for Canada, because it avoids a first placea group that will surely force cross with Croatia, the most feasible second in group A (it will be unless Sweden defeats the powerful Italia of Berrettini, Sinner and company in Bologna), as to Spaingiven that with this state of affairs it simplifies their options of being among the top eight something that did not get in the previous edition.

Although today’s rival is the most affordable, Bruguera does not want convey a feeling of relax. “I only think about playing the matches as well as possible, to prepare as well as possible. I don’t think about ranking. I don’t do numbers. In the first game we will go 100%. In the second game we will go 100%. If we need the doubles, we will go out and compete like we did on Friday. It’s all I ask and all that they give me. For me, my team is perfect, ”she assures.

After two wins in his two games of the week, everything indicates that Roberto Bautista will open against Korea with Seong Chan Hong as his rival. The second duel will be for Carlitos Alcarazwho admitted on Friday that he was not in his best shape after the wear and tear suffered at the US Open, but also that he would put himself at Bruguera’s disposal again if he could go back, ante Soonwoo Kwon. Las doubts are in the doubles. If against Serbia Granollers and Martínez mixed well, against Canada it seemed that the responsibility weighed too heavily on them. The first is a fixed as a specialist, but Martínez could fall out of the couple.