The national team will host Lithuania at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, on September 16 and 17.
Francisco Cerundolo, Sebastian Baezthe doubles Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalezand the beginner Thomas Etcheverry will form the Argentina team in Davis cupas announced this Saturday by the captain Guillermo Coria for the series before Lithuaniaon September 16 and 17, in Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis, for the World Group playoffs where the mission is to reach the 2024 Qualifiers.
Captain Coria chose the two best Argentine tennis players of the year, Báez and Cerúndolo, while he chose a rookie like Etcheverry from La Plata and a pair of doubles going through the best moment of his career.
In Coria’s consideration, Cordovan was left behind Pedro Cachin (66 in the world), this year’s Swiss ATP champion in Gstaad, is already a historic figure who has not had a good year as Diego Schwartzmanwhich was relegated to position 114 in the ATP world ranking and was also absent from the previous series against Finland, which was played in February in the city of Espoo.
In the case of Báez, 32 in the world and installed in the third round of the US Open (he will play tonight against Russian Daniil Medvedev, third in the world), he is this year’s champion of three tournaments, two on clay. surface, at the Córdoba Open in Kitzbuhel, in Austria, and another on the surface of cement, a week ago in Winston Salem, in the United States.
For his part, the eldest of the Cerúndolo brothers (20) won the Eastbourne Open, in England, a title on grass, something an Argentine tennis player had not achieved in 28 years, and also showed continuous development.
As for doubles, Molteni and Machi González form the winningest duo in the world this season, with five titles, the most important last month at the Cincinnati Masters 1000. Molteni is currently “top ten” in the doubles rankings located at seventh place, while González from Tandil is in 12th place, after an amazing year with titles in the Córdoba Open, Rio de Janeiro, the Conde de Godó, in Barcelona, :: with the Godó mentioned in Cincinnati.
Finally, Etcheverry (34) reached his best performance at the age of 24 and thus reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros and two finals on the circuit: Santiago, Chile, and Houston, United States.
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As for the rival, Lithuania has not yet designated the formation it will use in Buenos Aires but it is expected to be led by the experienced Ricardas Berankis, 33 years old and currently the team’s number one from his 254th position in the ranking. , although he is 50th. on the planet in 2016.
The Lithuanians’ second single was Vilius Gaubas (508) and then they would complete Edas Butvilas (531) and Matas Vasiliauskas (1503).
Source: Tycsports
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