The good news that the Argentine Davis Cup team received for the historic duel against Kazakhstan in Rosario

The Argentine tennis team will go this weekend for a ticket to the finals of the Davis Cup 2024 in view of Kazakhstan, in a historic duel. It is that for the first time the Albiceleste team will play a series of this competition rosary beads. He Jockeys’ club from that city they will receive the matches that will be played on Saturday and Sunday and which will qualify the winner for the group stage in September. And this will be very special for Guillermo Coria.

“It will be a historic moment, I hope I don’t get too emotional. I want to thank the Club, the City and the Province and the AAT, because they gave us this great opportunity to realize the dream of coming to play Davis here. It is exciting that the city where my wife was born, where my children were born and where I have lived for years, hosts an event like this”, commented the Magician during the presentation of the duel, which took place this Tuesday at the Rosario Hippodrome.

They were also present at the conference Mariano Zavaletavice-president of the AAT, Pablo Javkinmayor of Rosario, Massimiliano Pullarogovernor of Santa Fe and authorities of Santa Fe Tennis Federation.

Coria is originally from Rufino, but has adopted Rosario as her second home. And she assured that bringing Davis to that city is a further step towards the Argentine Association’s goal of making tennis a more federal sport.

“Many of us who are in the AAT come from within. We grew up knowing the sacrifices that every father, every mother, every family makes, selling lotteries in small towns for children to travel to. May the city and the province have this today’s event is a prize they deserved. Everything we are experiencing is very beautiful”, commented the Argentine captain.

Argentina, champion of the tournament in 2016 and who in September earned a place in the qualifiers with an overwhelming victory Lithuania by 4 to 0 for the first round of World Group I in Lawn tennis in Buenos Airesstarts as a big favorite, due to its local status, but also due to the team’s proper names.

Francisco Cerúndolo22nd in the world, Sebastiano Baez25°, e Tomas Etcheverry, 28, will be the three singles. The man from La Plata is the one who arrives at the best time, since he has just made a great one Australian Openin which he played at a high level, he reached the third round with victories against Andy Murray AND Gaël Monfils and it has fallen into that case before Novak Djokovic.

The doubles they will form will also be very strong. Massimo González AND André Molteniwho share 13th place in the rankings in that specialty and have been an established duo for a couple of seasons. stains I was originally going to play with Horace Zeballos11th in the standings, who wanted to compete in the series to meet the requirements to benefit from the Olympic Games. However, the man from Mar del Plata had already been suffering from a shoulder injury since the preseason, which began to bother him more in Melbourne, and Very has entered into force.

Kazakhstan, without its number 1

On the other side there will be a Kazakhstan which suffered a significant drop at the last minute. The thing is Alexander Bublik27th in the ATP and best individual player of the Asian team, he will not be present in Rosario, despite having been nominated by the captain Yuri Schukin and that as of Tuesday noon his resignation had not been officially confirmed.

But after being eliminated in the first round of the Oceanic Grand Slam in just three sets by the Indian Sumit Nagal (137th), decided not to play against Davis and to enroll in the ATP250 Montpellierwhere he is the second favorite in the singles draw (he will debut in the round of 16) and will also compete in the doubles with his compatriot Alexander Shevchenko (they will start this Wednesday).

According to unofficial sources, Bublik wants to add points to better position himself in the rankings and increase his chances of qualifying for the Paris Olympics. His place for the clash with Argentina will be filled Dmitry Popko338th in the rankings.

So will the other members of the Kazakh team, which began training on Sunday at the Jockey de Rosario Denis Evseev (176th single), Beibit Zhukaev (189th), Timofei Skatov (278°) e Alexander Nedovyesov (48th in doubles).

“The boys arrived from Australia, they have adapted to the change of program and last week they started playing on clay. Tomorrow we will start working on the Jockey, which is proving to be spectacular. On Wednesday and Thursday we will train hard, “Many hours. And Friday is quieter, because on Saturday we compete,” Coria said.

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The series will begin on Saturday at 11am with two singles duels, pitting one team’s first singles match against the other’s second, and vice versa (the order will be drawn on Friday). On Sunday, starting at 11:00, the doubles will be played and then the challenge between the top rackets of each nation. And, if necessary, crossover between the 2 singles. All matches will be defined as best of three sets and will be televised by TyC Sports. The 3,500 tickets available for the weekend are already sold out.

The record against the Kazakhs has two precedents, with one victory for each side. In 2011, at Parque Roca, Argentina won 5-0 with singles wins by John Monaco AND Juan Martin del Potroand in doubles Juan Ignacio Chela AND Eduardo Schwank. With the series already defined, Monaco and Chela sealed the ideal score in that series corresponding to the quarterfinals of the World Group.

The other duel was in 2017, in Astana, and Kazakhstan won 3 to 1. The only point was obtained by the Albiceleste Diego Schwartzmann. On that occasion the captain Daniele Orsanic he had also called Guido Pella and the doubles González and Molteni, who debuted in Davis. The series meant Argentina’s relegation after 16 uninterrupted years at the top level.

“Argentina deserves to get to the final and we have the players to get there. We believe we are very good for this series and we are doing everything we can to win it,” commented Coria.

The clash that will be played in Rosario will be one of the 12 Qualifiers that will be played this weekend. The others will be Canada-South Korea, Serbia-Slovakia, Croatia-Belgium, Hungary-Germany, Netherlands-Switzerland, Czech Republic-Israel, Ukraine-United States, Finland-Portugal, Taiwan-France, Sweden-Brazil and Chile-Peru . .

The winners of these series will advance to the group stage, which will take place from 10 to 15 September in four venues yet to be designated. In that case they are already waiting Italyreigning champion, Australiafinalist in 2023, e Spain AND Great Britain, special guests. The eight best of that phase will play the playoffs in Malaga in November, to define the champion of this edition.