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There is one month left for Colombia welcome the tennis delegation of United Kingdom in the dispute of the qualifying phase of the Davis Cup 2023.
With the venue already defined for the international tournament matches, this Friday, January 6, the Colombian Tennis Federation (Fedecoltenis) made public his list of tennis players called up to fight for a place in the finals.
Through the team captain, Alejandro FallaFedecoltenis announced the stellar roster to face Cameron Norrie, Daniel Evans, Jack Draper, Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury.
With the Santander tennis player Daniel Galan as head of the group, in addition to Nicolás Mejía, Nicolás Barrientos, Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah, this was the presentation of the national competitors via Twitter around 1:34 pm this Friday:
With them to war! ✊ The five tennis players who will represent the colors of Colombia in the series against the United Kingdom #DavisCup | #VamosColombia ????????
About the call in which the call will be present Colombian Power in the modality of doubles -eliminated on January 5, Adelaide Tournament I 2023— These were Falla’s impressions and expectations prior to the duels against the British:
We have a very competitive team, we hope to be able to carry out the series against a very strong team. We are going with all the desire and we need your support, energy, hopefully a full stadium, to fight strongly against the United Kingdom
The best of five matches between South Americans and Europeans will be able to get excited about advancing to the final phase of the competition, in which the world tennis powers are in their male branch.
With the home team in their favour, Colombia and their team captain, Alejandro Fallathey already have everything ready by instruction of the Colombian Tennis Federation (Fedecoltenis) to play cards in the Old Town Country Club Cota in the department of Cundinamarca.
Thus, on the outskirts of Bogotá and in the clay-court category, the municipality of Cota will host the tie against the ten-time Davis Cup champions. This was the announcement of Fedecoltenis on his Twitter account for the matches against the English:
In the same way, captain Alejandro Falla showed his optimism for what is to come and invited people to attend the Pueblo Viejo Country Club to cheer on the national team:
I hope they will join us, that we will fill the stadium. UK has a very strong team and in the next few days they will be confirming it, so we need all of you to cheer and we can take this series
In Cota, professional tournaments of the International Tennis Federation have been hosted. In 2019 the municipality was in charge of organizing a women’s event, while in 2021 it did so with a mixed category. In this way, in 2023 the headquarters of the Davis Cup will be removed from Bogotá to move it to its surroundings.
In 2018 and 2019, the Palacio de los Deportes was the place where the matches against Sweden and Argentina were played, respectively; while this year the Carmel Club Campestre hosted the match against Turkey, the latter with the following results:
The Davis Cup series between Colombia and Great Britain will be one of the 12 that will take place in February for the round of Qualifierswhich contemplates the following duels:
The group stage of the finals in September 2023 will be the goal for the team made up of Nicolás Mejía, Daniel Galán, Nicolás Mejía, Nicolás Barrientos, Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah.
These 12 winning teams will be joined by the 2022 Davis Cup champion (Canada), the 2022 finalist (Australia) and two countries that received an invitation wildcard by the organization (spain e Italia).
Each of the qualifiers will be contested with two singles matches on the first day; and one doubles match and two singles during the second day, all defined in three sets.
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