By Tennis Now Staff | @Tennis_Now | Monday, September 11, 2024

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Tennis Channel would be the unique U.S. broadcaster of the Davis Cup Finals Group Stage September 12-Seventeenth.

The six-day occasion will characteristic 16 nationwide groups in 4 European cities, with the possibility to be one of many eight that may qualify for the Davis Cup Finals in November. Among them is the United States, which first performs Wednesday, Sept. 13, in opposition to Croatia at 9 a.m. ET.

The annual “World Cup of Men’s Tennis,” Davis Cup has been performed since 1900, with the United States profitable the title a document 32 occasions. Tennis Channel platforms’ day by day protection begins at 8 a.m. ET.

The 16 nations which have certified for the Finals Group Stage this week are separated into 4 teams of 4 groups every. Competition will happen in Bologna, Italy; Manchester, England; Split, Croatia; and Valencia, Spain.

All three of the United States Davis Cup matches this week will start at 9 a.m. ET. After battling Croatia on September 13, the crew will face Netherlands on Thursday, Sept. 14, and Finland on Saturday, Sept. 16. The head-to-head matchups will air on Tennis Channel.

The Americans are led by World No. 11 singles star Frances Tiafoe, a fan favourite who reached the US Open singles quarterfinals final week after advancing to the occasion’s semifinals in 2022. He will likely be joined by Tommy Paul, who made it to the fourth spherical of the US Open singles match this yr. Their teammate Mackenzie McDonald not too long ago posted his greatest consequence at an ATP Masters 1000 occasion, attending to the singles quarterfinal in Toronto final month and reaching a career-high World No. 43 rating.

The U.S. squad is simply as sturdy on the doubles facet, with World No. 5 doubles star Rajeev Ram having received his Open Era-record third consecutive US Open crown on Friday. World No. 1 doubles participant Austin Krajicek is having a profession yr as effectively. After profitable his first main doubles championship at Roland Garros (generally known as the French Open), he achieved the highest rating in males’s doubles in June and once more this week. At the US Open, Krajicek additionally marched into the doubles semifinals, the place he misplaced to his Davis Cup teammate Ram.

The United States is captained by Bob Bryan who, together with his brother Mike, are thought of by many to be the best doubles crew of all time. The Bryans contributed to the championship received by the latest American crew to seize the Davis Cup, in 2017.

Every yr, Davis Cup competitors is actually an all-star match with lots of the recreation’s greatest tennis gamers. With Tiafoe, top-ranked males set to compete this week embrace Holger Rune (Denmark), Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) and Alexander Zverev (Germany). Here are the swimming pools for the 2023 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage:

Group A (Bologna, Italy) Group B (Manchester, England)

Canada, Chile, Italy, Sweden Australia, Britain, France Switzerland

Group C (Valencia, Spain) Group D (Split, Croatia) Czech Rep., Serbia, South Korea, Spain Croatia, Finland, Netherlands, United States

Davis Cup competitors this week will likely be included with Tennis Channel’s Center Court protection, which is able to carry viewers males’s and girls’s tennis going down all over the world on the identical time.

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