On October 25, the 2021 Davis Cup finals will officially start. Recently, the International Tennis Federation has just announced the list of players attending and the draw results of the groups. Notably, both the world's top players, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev, will participate.
Specifically, the Davis Cup 2021 finals will have 18 teams attending, divided into 6 groups. These 18 names include 4 teams reaching the semi -finals of the 2019 season, 2 teams received Wild Card from BTC and 12 teams in the qualifying stage (taking place in February 2019).
In 2020, the Davis Cup finals cannot take place according to the plan due to the influence of Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, the defending champion is still Spain. According to the draw results, Spain will be in Group A with Russia and Ecuador.
The name that was concerned about was Serbia, Tel has the number one world player Novak Djokovic. This year, Serbia is in Group F with Germany and Austria. Unfortunately, Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem both confirmed not to attend the prize.
The competition format in the Davis Cup finals is as follows: The teams in 6 tables will compete in a circle. 6 teams in the table with 2 second teams will win tickets to the quarterfinals. The factors to determine the second 2 -table goes to the next are the winning rate of matches, the ratio of winning the sets and then the ratio of winning games.
According to BTC's notice, the group stage and quarterfinals of the 2021 Davis Cup will be held in three locations including Madrid (Spain), Innsbruck (Austria) and Turin (Italy). From the semi -final to the final, the matches will take place in Madrid.
List of 6 groups at the 2021 Davis Cup finals
Table A (Madrid)
Russia: Daniil Medvedev, Andrey RubleV, Aslan Karatsev, Karen Khachanov, Evgeny Donskoy.
Spain: Pablo Carreno Busta, Roberto Bautista Agut, Carlos Alcaraz, Feliciano Lopez, Marcel Granollers.
Ecuador: Emilio Gomez, Roberto Quiroz, Diego Hidalgo, Gonzalo Escobar, Antonio Cayetano March.
Table B (Madrid)
Canada: Felix Auger -anssime, Denis Shapovalov, Vasek Pospisil, Brayden Schnur, Peter Polansky.
Kazakhstan: Alexander Bublik, Mikhail Kukushkin, Dmitry Popko, Aleksandr Nedovyesov, Andrey Golubev.
Sweden: Elias Ymer, Mikael Ymer, Jonathan Midha, Andra Goransson.
Table C (Innsbruck)
France: Ugo Humbert, Arthur Rinderknech, Richard Gasquet, Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Nicolas Mahut.
England: Cameron Norrie, Daniel Evans, Joe Salisbury, Neal Skupski.
Czech: Jiri Vesely, Tomas Machac, Zdenk Kolar, Jiri Lehecka, Lukas Rosol.
Table D (Turin)
Croatia: Marin Cilic, Borna Coric, Borna Gojo, Nikola Mektic, Mate Pavic.
Australia: Alex de Minaur, John Millman, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, John Peers.
Hungary: Marton Fucsovics, Attila Balazs, Zsombor Marozsan, Mate Valdusz.
Table E (Turin)
US.: John Isner, Reilly Opelka, Taylor Fritz, Jack Sock, Rajeev Ram.
Italy: Matteo Berrettini, Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Sonego, Fabio Fognini, Lorenzo Musetti.
Colombia: Daniel Elahi Galan, Nicolas Mejia, Juan Sebastian Cabal, Robert Farah.
Table F (Innsbruck)
Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Filip Krajinovic, Dusan Lajovic, Laslo Djere, Miomir Kecmanovic.
Germany: Jan-Lennard Struff, Dominik Koepfer, Peter Gojowczyk, Kevin Krawietz, Tim Puetz.
Austria: Dennis Novak, Jurij Rodionov, Gerald Melzer, Oliver Marach, Philipp Oswald.
