The Spanish tennis team is looking to seal its ticket for the middle round of the Finals this Friday. davis cup 2022 With their second win in their group against Canada, a potential opponent they can already count, apart from surprise. Carlos Alcaraz.
The recently world number one and United States Open champion from Murcia rested in the first qualifying round of the ’round robin’ hosted by Fuente de San Luis de Valencia this Wednesday. Recharge body and mind after the attrition in New York.
But the first hurdle Spain has to overcome is Vasek Pospisilwhich faces Robert Baptist.
victory over Serbia
The man from El Palmar was on the bench cheering for his teammates who hadn’t missed him in their first game against Serbia, with the payoff but also hard work set in for a perfect 3-0. Albert RamosTo get rid of Alcaraz replacement Laslo Djere, he had to come from behind and Robert Baptist It was a trick that beat the dangerous Miomir Kecmanovic in two tie-breaks. formed by the binary Marcel Granollers Y Peter Martinez He also came out with victory.
The most normal thing now is that Spanish captain Sergi Bruguera put the champ at Flushing Meadows in this tie and the man from Castellón, who has left good vibes and is already running this competition well, is the one who opened it. Granollers and Martínez would remain for the decisive point.
Against, E.Spain will take on rival Canada, where they won their sixth and final ‘Salad Bowl’ in 2019. He said he came in somewhat weakened by the loss of left-back Denis Shapovalov and the hesitant moment of young Felix Auger-Aliassime, who had lost his first match against South Korean Soonwoo Kwon last Tuesday and still won. I don’t know what it is to win in individual team competition.
Like Spain, which lost at the start of the year in the ATP Cup, where Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime did not offer Pablo Carreño and Roberto Bautista options and won the title for their country, the Americans will avenge 2019.
The Castellón man will open against presenter Vasik Pospisil, with whom he has a proper 3-1 balance, but the only defeat in his last match is at the US Open in 2020 and the Murcia man will face the Canadian number. Playing only once against him in the quarterfinals of the 2021 US Open, he was pulled back due to physical problems while already losing 6-3, 3-1.