Lorenzo Sonego and Lorenzo Musetti, for Italy, and Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime, for Canada, were re-elected of their captains to play this Saturday in Malaga in the Davis Cup semifinal.
All four players will be present in the quarterfinal matches.
The number twos, Sonego and Shapovalov, ranked 45th and 18th on the ATP, will play in the first individual matchwhile the leaders of the team, Musetti (23) and Auger-Aliassime (6), will play the second point on the green track of the Martín Carpena pavilion.
Sonego and Auger-Aliassime won their matches in the quarterfinalsunlike Musetti and Shapovalov, who lost to them.
If tie-breaking doubles must be used, captain Filippo Volandri and Frank Dancevic entrust the mission again to Simone Bolelli/Fabio Fognini and Shapovalov-Vasek Pospisilwhich gave them their respective final points in the quarterfinals against the United States and Germany.
The two times Italy and Canada have met in the past in the Davis Cup, victory has gone to the North American team.
Italy will face this edition without its two best players, Jannik Sinner (15) and Matteo Berrettini (16), injured, although the second remains in the team in case he evolves favorably and is considered by captain needed his contest.
The winner of this semifinal will play in the silver salad bowl on Sunday with Australiawhich on Friday defeated Croatia.
Source: La Verdad
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