The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, third player in the world, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, eleventh, the Argentine Diego Schwartzman, fourteenth and the Chilean Cristian Garín, nineteenth, are the main claims of the World Group I and World Group II qualifiers of the Davis cup that will be played from September 17 to 19.
These four players ranked among the twenty best on the ATP circuit have been called up by their respective teams for the matches.
Ten of the twelve World Group I qualifiers and eight of the twelve World Group II matches will take place between September 17 and 19. The rest were disputed last March. In World Group I, Japan beat Pakistan (0-4) in Islamabad and Ukraine beat Israel in Kiev (3-2). In World Group II, Mexico beat Bulgaria (1-3) in Sofia and Poland beat El Salvador in Kalisz (3-1),
The eight highest ranked winning teams from World Group I will play in the qualifying series for the 2022 Finals. While the four winners with the lowest classification will be part of an extra tie in November where those who win will be part of the qualifiers and the losers will go to the playoffs of the 2022 World Group.
The system is similar for World Group II. The eight of the twelve best-ranked winners will qualify directly for the 2022 World Group I qualifiers and the winners with the lowest coefficient will play an extra series in November where the two winners will qualify for the 2022 World Group I playoffs. The losers will go to the 2022 World Group II qualifiers.
Ruud, enjoying the best year of his career, reinforces the Norwegian team that host Uzbekistan in Oslo, in the World Group I match.
Schwartzman leads Argentina. The world number 14 leads a powerful South American team that starts as favorites in the confrontation against Belarus facing the series weakened by the lack of six of his best individual tennis players. Federico Coria, the younger brother of Guillermo Coria, who was number three in the world, will make his debut in Gastón Gaudio's group, who intends to return to the elite.
Chile, led by Cristian Garín, travels to Bratislava to face Slovakia. Captain Nicolás Massu he has put together a solid team to take the road to the finals next year.
Uruguay has an appointment against the Netherlands that will go to the Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club in Montevideo. The European team has the momentum of Botic Van de Zandschulp, who reached the quarterfinals of the US Open, beaten by Daniil Medvedev. The South American team has Pablo and Martín Cuevas.
New Zealand, which has the bronze medalists in doubles in Tokyo 2020 Marcus Daniel and Michael Venus receive in the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, in the United States, to South Korea.
World Group I
Also in September, in World Group I, the duels between Bolivia and Belgium in Asunción, Paraguay, and Brazil in Lebanon are set., on the clay of the Automobile and Touring Club, Finland against India in Espoo, that of Peru, which receives in the Lawn Tennis Club of the Lima Exhibition to Bosnia Herzegovina and the clash between Romania and Portugal in Cluj.
For March 2022 there are two qualifiers left: Pakistan and Japan in Islamabad and Ukraine against Israel in Kiev.
Tsitsipas, who enjoys the best position in his career, and who was a finalist at Roland Garros this season, surpassed by Novak Djokovic, leads the Greece team against Lithuania in their World Group II tie at the Lyttos Beach tennis Academy in Heraklion.
In this category, Switzerland hosts Estonia in Biel, the Dominican Republic goes to Tunisia, Paraguay to Portoroz to face Slovenia and Venezuela will play in New York with South Africa at home. In addition, Denmark hosts Thailand, Turkey to Latvia, Barbados to Indonesia, Zimbabwe to China and Morocco plays in Chinese Taipei.