The team for Davis. / Photo: Telam Archive.
Francisco Cerúndolo, Sebastián Báez, the doubles players Andrés Molteni and Máximo González, and the rookie Tomás Martín Etcheverry will form the Argentina team in the Davis Cupaccording to announced it this Saturday Captain Guillermo “Mago” Coria for the series against Lithuania, on September 16 and 17, in Buenos Aires, for the World Group playoffs in which the mission will be to reach the “Qualifiers” of 2024.
In this context, Captain Coria leaned towards the two best Argentine tennis players of the year, Báez and Cerúndolo, while he opted for a rookie like Etcheverry from La Plata and a doubles couple who are going through the best moment of their career.
In Coria’s consideration, Pedro Cachín (66 in the world), champion this year in the Swiss ATP of Gstaad, was left out, already a historical man who is not going through his best moment like Diego “Peque” Schwartzman, relegated to position 114 in the world ranking. of the ATP and also absent in the previous series against Finland, played last February in the city of Espoo.
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In the case of Báez, 32 in the world and installed in the third round of the US Open (he will play tonight against the Russian Daniil Medvedev, third in the world), he was champion this year of three tournaments, two on a clay surface, in the Córdoba Open and Kitzbuhel, in Austria, and another on a cement surface, a week ago in Winston Salem, in the United States.
For his part, the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers (20) won the Eastbourne Open, in England, in a title on grass, something that an Argentine tennis player had not achieved for 28 years, and also showed constant progress.
As for doubles, Molteni and “Machi” González form the most winning duo in the world this season, with five titles, the most important last month at the Cincinnati Masters 1000.
Molteni is currently “top ten” in the doubles ranking located in seventh place, while González from Tandil occupies the 12th place, after a fantastic year with titles in the Córdoba Open, Rio de Janeiro, the Conde de Godó, in Barcelona, Washington and the one mentioned in Cincinnati.
Lastly, Etcheverry (34) reached his best performance at the age of 24 and thus reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros and two finals on the circuit: Santiago, Chile, and Houston, United States.
In this context, the Argentina national team will receive the Lithuanians in two weeks at the facilities of “La Catedral”, the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, with a challenge that does not appear complicated due to the limitations of its rival, which would pave the pass to the Davis Qualifiers and return to rub shoulders with the elite countries of world tennis.
2023-09-02 15:12:00
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