World No.13 Alex de Minaur spearheads the Australian line-up for the 2023 Davis Cup Finals in Spain subsequent month.
Malaga, Spain, 23 October 2023 | tennis.com.au
The Australian group competing on the 2023 Davis Cup Finals subsequent month has been revealed.
Captain Lleyton Hewitt goes with an unchanged line-up, with Alex de Minaur, Max Purcell, Jordan Thompson, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Matt Ebden all set to don the inexperienced and gold.
This is identical group that helped Australia qualify for the Last 8 through the round-robin stage at Manchester in September.
World No.13 Alex de Minaur gained two of his three singles matches through the group stage, whereas doubles mixture Max Purcell and Matt Ebden had been unbeaten throughout their three matches.
| 2023 Davis Cup Finals Australian group | ||||
| Participant | Singles rank | Doubles rank | Ties performed | Davis Cup W-L report |
| Alex de Minaur | No.13 | No.221 | 17 | 13-7 |
| Max Purcell | No.41 | No.41 | 7 | 6-3 |
| Jordan Thompson | No.58 | No.105 | 11 | 9-4 |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis | No.68 | No.185 | 10 | 5-7 |
| Matt Ebden | – | No.6 | 11 | 10-2 |
| Captain: Lleyton Hewitt | ||||
After recording a runner-up end in 2022, the Australian group is trying to win their first Davis Cup title in 20 years.
They’ll start that quest with a quarterfinal showdown towards the Czech Republic on Wednesday 22 November, performed at an indoor hard-court at Malaga in Spain.
Australia has gained eight of its earlier 9 Davis Cup conferences towards the Czech Republic. This consists of the latest tie at Melbourne in 2017, when Jordan Thompson gained two singles encounters to safe a 4-1 World Group first-round victory for Australia.
“We gained’t be studying rather a lot into our previous head-to-head matches towards the Czech Republic after we go into this battle,” Hewitt mentioned.
“They’ve a variety of new, younger gamers within the group, high quality gamers in (Jiri) Lehecka and in addition (Tomas) Machac. They’re very assured for the time being they usually performed extraordinarily effectively of their qualifying matches, successful all three matches by three rubbers to like.
“We’re very cautious, however we really feel quietly assured in our group. I’ve full perception within the boys that they will go on the market and hopefully get the job performed for us.”
The winner of Australia and the Czech Republic advances to a semifinal showdown towards both defending champions Canada or Finland on Friday 24 November.
“On our half of the draw is Canada, who we misplaced a really shut closing to final 12 months so it could be good to get a chance to attempt to get revenge on them within the semifinals if we are able to get by means of,” Hewitt added.
“In any other case, Finland, who’ve actually been a little bit of a shock packet have high quality gamers all through their group as effectively.
“Very first thing first, we’ve to maintain the Czech Republic to present us a shot to get by means of to the ultimate 4.”
Italy, Netherlands, Serbia and Nice Britain are the opposite nations nonetheless in competition to win the coveted Davis Cup title in 2023.
The Last 8 stage of the 2023 Davis Cup competitors runs from 21-26 November in Spain.
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