Men's Tennis ITF Davis Cup 2024

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Men's Tennis ITF Davis Cup 2024

 

Multi-Stage Event - 2 February 2024 - 24 November 2024

 

 

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Edited February 2 by Sindo

[hckošice 14,863]

3rd time 5th Time a charm...

 

 

After 4 consecutive Play-Offs Losses won a play-off match and qualify for the first time (under this new format) to the finals.

 

And it was a team including Molčan... go and figure...

 

Molčan the biggest anomaly of world tennis, when playing for himself and money at individual level is just terrible but when he plays for his country for nothing he turn on a sort of unbeatable machine...

 

Anyway. After 4 years of failures in the last step, this time we made it.

 

 

 

That moment when you qualify for your first Group Stage Finals 🪩🇸🇰#DavisCup pic.twitter.com/9RutlpEYjn

— Davis Cup (@DavisCup) February 3, 2024

[Makedonas 2,162]

We are leading 2-0 against  after Day 1!

 

Tsitsipas won 6-3 6-4 over Copil 

 

Once again, our number two player Stefanos Sakellaridis is not playing for the national team. So actually our 8th highest ranked player, Aristotelis Thanos (number 1433) got the chance to play against Ionel (no. 265). Thanos actually won 4-6 6-3 6-2! 

 

Thanos must be similar to your Molcan @hckošice (but obviously a much lesser version), because he does nothing in other tournaments but is somehow 3-0 in Davis Cup singles matches, all times against opponents ranked much higher than him (last year he won vs no. 564 from Ecuador and the year before vs. a guy from Jamaica who was then 1130 but now 319). He is 22 yo, so not that young, but maybe he can improve a lot in the next few years and at least make the top 500 or so. You don't win three big Davis Cup singles matches by accident...

 

So now tomorrow should be easier, we can probably rest Stefanos in doubles and have him focus on his singles match where he can clinch the victory for us.

 

Also the venue this time was the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, which was built in 2004 and hosted judo and wrestling at the Olympics. It was not used much since then for various reasons (it is not very close to the city centre and not easily accessible by public transportation), but the arena is now used by AEK BC (one of our biggest clubs and Tsitsipas' personal favourite team) for the past few years and our national basketball team has played some games there recently.

 

So now we played at home the last three times in Davis Cup, and at three different iconic venues (though this one was the least famous of the three). However I think it would be nice if they played in other cities too. Greece is not just Athens and my Thessaloniki deserves some of these events too 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Makedonas 2,162]

 

@Bearas@Werloc

[MatiReimundo 348]

Top 270  Timofey Skatov defeats argentinians Tomas Etcheverry and Francisco Cerundolo (both top 30) in Rosario  and takes the series to a fifth and decisive match 

[hckošice 14,863]

Slovakia will bid to host the final tournament. Well, I guess, I can understand the move. We made it once so why not have the whole show, right ? only the good god know in which next decade will we qualify next time again , so such once in lifetime opportunity must be used.

 

Travel to Slovakia. Good Idea !

[Makedonas 2,162]

We ended up beating Romania 4-0! I thought we would win 3-2, so definitely it was a lot easier than we expected!

[Gianlu33 4,600]

Spain lost against Netherlands 

[Josh 10,598]

Farewell Rafa! 

[copravolley 274]

Goodbye champion! I think I first heard about him during the ATP tournament in Monte Carlo (now ATP 1000 but back then it was called something else) in distant 2003. Time flies really fast, because it's been over 20 years

 

Return to competition: on paper Italy and the USA are the strongest now, who can play in 1/2 but in principle anyone can beat anyone here, e.g. today the Netherlands vs Spain. In theory, Sinner can guarantees 1 point in every potential singles matches. Now the question is who will be the 2nd racket in Italy and who possibly played doubles: Sinner with Musetti or Bolelli with Vavassori? I remember that Sinner was scheduled to play Musetti in the doubles at the Paris Olympics before his withdrawal.

Edited November 19 by copravolley