Nicolás Massú’s team secured the last ticket to the event, in which they will participate for the third time in the last five years. With a more consolidated base, the national team will look to overcome the group stage for the first time.
The ranking of the Chilean Davis Cup team added a new milestone to the rich record of national tennis: For the third time in five years, the team led by Nicolás Massú will compete in the final of the most important national team tournament in the world. Additionally, along with Argentina, it became the South American nation with the most participations under the current format.
The victory against Peru places Chile in the group of 16 best on the planet. While waiting for the draw, scheduled in a few months, The format that awaits the pupils of the double Olympic champion of Athens 2004 is broken down into a group stage, which will take place from September 10 to 15 in four cities to be confirmed. on hard surfaces and indoors, as has been the trend since 2019.
Due to a time problem, the Venezuelan team was the last to confirm their passage to the final phase, thus confirming all participating teams. In advance, There were four qualified teams: Italy, 2023 champion, Australia, vice-champion, and the guests, Spain and Great Britain.
After this weekend’s qualifying, they joined Canada, Slovakia, Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, United States, Finland, France and Brazil. Among them, during the Massú era, Chile faced the first four, in addition to the current monarchs. Even among Canadians and Argentines, crossings have taken place twice in recent years.
If you make it through the group stage, The national team will qualify for the Final 8 for the first time which will take place in Malaga in November, where the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final of the Salad Bowl will be played over a week.
“This is the third time in five years that we are in the World Group. Every time we arrive, it’s a memory of my debut in 2014. They are responsible, I try to do my job. We have an extraordinary team. The analysis is that we always fight, from the first ball to the last, winning or losing. You always have to fight, give your best. If we have this mentality, we can advance in the series against our rival,” said Nicolás Massú after obtaining a new ranking.
After the ITF ranking update, Chile appears in 15th place , moving up one position from the previous delivery. However, It will also remain in pot 4, alongside Spain, Brazil and Argentina, the only ones it will not be able to face in this phase.
Experienced team
Of the five players called by the captain, four of them -Christian Garin, Nicolás Jarry, Tomás Barrios and Alejandro Tabilo- They participated on all three occasions when Chile qualified for the Davis Cup final. Only Matías Soto, who became the fifth tennis player on the team after the retirement of Gonzalo Lama, did not have this experience.
In its first participation in 2019, the team lost the series against Germany and Argentina (it was played in groups of three), while in the last edition it scraped the ranking, after beating Sweden and losing narrowly to Italy and Canada.
Today, the team’s moment is one of waiting. Jarry is 20th in the world, Tabilo 54th, Garin 87th and Tomás Barrios 108th. which allows us to take a new step to consolidate a work which began in the third division of world tennis and which today makes an entire country dream of something great in the group of the best in the world.
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