The final stage of the 2023 Davis Cup will experience a stellar quarterfinal day this Thursday. After the contention of the first two series, Finland-Canada and Australia-Czech Republic, it’s the turn of the two biggest stars to come to Malaga in search of a ‘Salad Bowl’: Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner.
The world tennis number one arrived in Malaga on Monday after his brilliant victory in the ATP Finals with one idea in mind: to close the dream season with what would be the second title for Serbia in the history of the competition. “The season isn’t over yet. I want to win the Davis Cup with Serbia. This is a goal. This is an important week for us, for our country. “We will do our best,” he said upon arrival.
The first obstacle to achieving this is, starting at 4pm, a Great Britain (4pm) depleted by injuries. that leaves Dan Evans and Andy Murray. Despite everything, the British team still has world number 18 Cameron Norrie and youngster Jack Draper in the team, as well as a strong doubles line-up that includes world number 3, Neal Skupski.
Djokovic faced the challenge in one of the best moments of his careerwith 24 Grand Slam titles won and historical records broken, such as adding 400 weeks as number one in the ATP ranking, but his ambition does not allow him to rest.
In the Davis Cup, he has a record of 31 wins and seven losses in singles matches, a 3-3 tie in doubles and a title in Serbia, the only one in his country so far, achieved in the 2010 edition, when it was played in a different format than the current one. Next to him are Laslo Djere (33), Dusan Lajovic (46), Miomir Kecmanovic (55) and Hamad Medjedovic (111), a luxury formation that they make a favorite.
Transalpine power
To defeat Great Britain, Serbia face off on Saturday with the winner of Thursday’s other tie taking on Italy against the Netherlands from 10 am. This will be the chance to see one of the sensations of the end of this season in action: Jannik Sinner.
The number 4 in the world has jumped in quality in recent months and In Malaga he stands as the leader of a strong Italian team where we find three more Top 50Lorenzo Musetti (27), Matteo Arnaldi (44) and Lorenzo Sonego (47), a veteran doubles specialist like Simone Bolelli.
“I came with a good feeling, I think we have an incredible opportunity to do something big” Sinner said in his media appearance.
In front of them they will have, with the permission of Finland, one of the revelations of the tournament, the Netherlands. Tallon Griekspoor and Botic Van de Zandschulp lead a team looking to repeat their group stage success, as they qualified for Malaga after surprising the United States and Croatia.
Source: La Verdad
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