Sunday 17 November 2019

Pique (Davis?) Cup

Davis (Pique?) Cup by Rakuten Finals, Madrid

Map!


Puerta de Europa
BBVA headquarters - La Vela
It's a box! But! It's a magic box! - La Caja Magica
So in pictures I avoided Old Madrid, because this is not the old Davis Cup. You feel me? :))
It's the Finals. Here's how it'll shake up: six groups of three nations each. Group winners and the two best 2nd places from the six groups go to the QF. From there it's a normal knockout system. The ties are made of two singles matches and one doubles match, all best of three and all played in one day. Forgot to say, but all this stuff will happen on HC, not clay, in case you expected that, because of you know... Madrid... Also it will be indoors with all 3 roofs closed.
Here are the teams and the groups (alphabetically by nation and as of 22nd Oct - I don't really care who withdrew or who didn't, so that, sadly, is on you guys...):

Group A
Group B
Group C

France[1]

Croatia[2]

Argentina[3]
Gael Monfils
Borna Gojo
Diego Schwartzman
Benoit Paire
Borna Coric
Guido Pella
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Mate Pavic
Leonardo Mayer
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Nikola Mektic
Horacio Zeballos
Nicolas Mahut
Ivan Dodig

Captain: Sebastien Grosjean
Captain: Zeljko Krajan
Captain: Gaston Gaudio

 Japan

Russia

Chile
Yoshihito Nishioka
Daniil Medvedev
Cristian Garin
Yasutaka Uchiyama
Karen Khachanov
Nicolas Jarry
Yuichi Sugita
Andrey Rublev
Alejandro Tabilo
Taro Daniel
Evgeny Donskoy
Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera
Ben McLachlan

Hans Podlipnik-Castillo
Captain: Satoshi Iwabuchi
Captain: Shamil Tarpishev
Captain: Nicolas Massu

Serbia

Spain

Germany
Novak Djokovic
Rafael Nadal
Jan-Lennard Struff
Dusan Lajovic
Roberto Bautista Agut
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Filip Krajinovic
Pablo Carreno Busta
Dominik Koepfer
Viktor Troicki
Feliciano Lopez
Kevin Krawietz
Janko Tipsarevic
Marcel Granollers
Andreas Mies
Captain: Nenad Zimonjic
Captain: Sergi Bruguera
Captain: Michael Kohlmann


Group D
Group E
Group F

Australia

Great Britain[5]

Canada
Alex de Minaur
Dan Evans
Brayden Schnur
Nick Kyrgios
Andy Murray
Felix Auger-Aliassime
John Millman
Jamie Murray
Denis Shapovalov
Jordan Thompson
Neal Skupski
Vasek Pospisil
John Peers


Captain: Lleyton Hewitt
Captain: Leon Smith
Captain: Frank Dancevic

Belgium[4]

Kazakhstan

Italy
David Goffin
Alexander Bublik
Matteo Berrettini
Kimmer Coppejans
Mikhail Kukushkin
Fabio Fognini
Steve Darcis
Dmitry Popko
Lorenzo Sonego
Joran Vliegen
Alexsandr Nedovyesov
Andrea Seppi
Sander Gille
Andrey Golubev
Simone Bolelli
Captain: Johan Van Herck
Captain: Dias Doskarayev
Captain: Corrado Barazzutti

Colombia

Netherlands

United States[6]
Daniel Galan
Robin Haase
Taylor Fritz
Santiago Giraldo
Tallon Griekspoor
Reilly Opelka
Alejandro Gonzalez
Botic Van de Zandschulp
Sam Querrey
Juan Sebastian Cabal
Wesley Koolhof
Frances Tiafoe
Robert Farah
Jean-Julien Rojer
Jack Sock
Captain: Pablo Gonzalez
Captain: Paul Haarhuis
Captain: Mardy Fish

The QF are also already drawn:
A v R-up
D v F
E v C
R-up v B

You want more info, visit the official site: Davis Cup
Schedule - no pdf
Spain! Ole! Vamos!

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