| Venue: AO Area, Manchester Dates: 12-17 September. |
| Protection: Streaming and dwell textual content protection of GB ties throughout BBC Sport web site, app and iPlayer |
The Davis Cup Finals group stage begins this week with Nice Britain considered one of 16 nations attempting to make it by way of to the knockout stage.
Nice Britain tackle Australia, France and Switzerland of their round-robin group matches at Manchester’s AO Area.
Andy Murray missed the 3-1 victory over Colombia in February however is again within the squad, alongside Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans, Neal Skupski and Jack Draper.
The highest two from Britain’s group will advance to November’s knockout phases.
“We won’t wait to play Davis Cup in Manchester in entrance of an enormous house crowd,” Britain’s captain Leon Smith mentioned.
“We have now an awesome group with numerous Davis Cup expertise who will probably be prepared to present it all the things in a troublesome group with Australia, Switzerland and France.”
Murray, who was integral to Britain ending a 79-year look ahead to glory within the males’s group competitors as they triumphed in 2015, was not noted of their qualifying win on the Colombian clay.
Smith steered the floor was not ultimate for Murray, who on the time had performed simply three matches on clay since 2017.
Draper, 21, was the final participant to be added following his run to the fourth spherical of this the US Open, the place he misplaced to Russian eighth seed Andrey Rublev.
Calling up Draper additionally signifies that Smith will depend on Wimbledon doubles champion Skupski and Evans as his doubles partnership, having ignored Joe Salisbury, who, together with American accomplice Rajeev Ram, received a 3rd successive US Open males’s doubles title on Friday.
Britain want to complete within the high two of the four-team group, performed from 12 to 17 September, to make it by way of to the ultimate phases of the competitors in Malaga, Spain, from 21 to 26 November.
What’s the format?
4 nations obtained automated qualification to the Finals group stage – final 12 months’s winners Canada, runners-up Australia and wildcards Italy and Spain.
They’ve been joined by 12 qualifiers – Chile, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Nice Britain, the Netherlands, Serbia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
The nations have been divided into 4 teams of 4. Group A performs in Bologna, Italy, Group B in Manchester, Group C in Valencia, Spain, and Group D in Break up, Croatia.
Every tie options two singles rubbers and one in doubles. The highest two in every group after the round-robin section will transfer into the knockout section in Spain in November.
Fixtures (all 14:00 BST except acknowledged, teams in brackets)
Tuesday, 12 September: Sweden v Chile (A), France v Switzerland (B, 13:00 BST), Serbia v South Korea (C), Netherlands v Finland (D)
Wednesday, 13 September: Canada v Italy (A), Australia v Nice Britain (B, 13:00 BST), Spain v Czech Republic (C), Croatia v United States (D)
Thursday, 14 September: Canada v Sweden (A), Australia v France (B, 13:00 BST), Czech Republic v South Korea (C), Netherlands v United States (D)
Friday, 15 September: Italy v Chile (A), Nice Britain v Switzerland (B, 13:00 BST), Spain v Serbia (C), Croatia v Finland (D)
Saturday, 16 September: Canada v Chile (A), Australia v Switzerland (B, 13:00 BST), Serbia v Czech Republic (C), United States v Finland (D)
Sunday, 17 September: Italy v Sweden (A), Nice Britain v France (B, 13:00 BST), Spain v South Korea (C), Croatia v Netherlands (D)
Who will Nice Britain be up towards?
Nice Britain’s squad consists of three gamers – Norrie, Evans and Murray – ranked within the high 45 on this planet, whereas Skupski received the boys’s doubles at Wimbledon in July alongside Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands.
Australia are with out Nick Kyrgios due to a wrist harm, whereas their energy in depth is proven with top-50 gamers Alexei Popyrin and Aleksandar Vukic not being included.
Alex de Minaur is twelfth on this planet, whereas Jordan Thompson and Thanasi Kokkinakis are inside the highest 80. Max Purcell and Matthew Ebden received the boys’s doubles at Wimbledon in 2022.
France have a mix of youth and expertise with 19-year-old Arthur Fils, an ATP Tour winner on the Lyon Open in Could, alongside doubles specialists Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Nicolas Mahut, who’re 39 and 41 years outdated respectively.
Prime 40 gamers Ugo Humbert and Adrian Mannarino are additionally within the French squad.
Switzerland received the Davis Cup in 2014, however not have the retired Roger Federer to name upon, though three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka, who was within the victorious Swiss aspect 9 years in the past, once more options.
Dominic Stricker, 21, defeated Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas within the 2023 US Open earlier than dropping within the final 16, whereas their aspect additionally consists of Marc-Andrea Huesler and doubles specialists Alexander Ritschard and Leandro Riedi.
