For the 2022 Qualifiers, an instance in which Argentina will face the Czech Republic this Friday and Saturday, a regulatory novelty was implemented. The roster for the series had to be delivered a month before the games, with the possibility of making up to three changes before the start of the competition, a decision that responds to the unforeseen pandemic.
The only modification that the national captain had to make came about the time, a handful of days before training began. Frederic Delbonisaffected by Covid-19 at the end of January, decided to leave the team due to a hip ailment that has been dragging on for some time.
“With my team and medical staff, we decided to get off to start a treatment so that this does not harm my tennis career”argued who was absent from the national team since that Croatian night in 2016 in which he won the fifth point and finally Argentina managed to win the Davis Cup.
It was then that the former Roland Garros finalist found it necessary to proclaim a new name to replace one of Zagreb’s heroes. Francisco Cerundolosemifinalist at the Argentina Open and at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, emerged as the natural candidate to occupy the place, but at the same time that “Delbo’s” withdrawal was announced, the official accounts reported that Federico Coria He would be the one summoned.
Paradoxically, “Fefo”, the captain’s younger brother, joined the Argentine Davis Cup team at the hands of Gastón Gaudio, who summoned him last September for reclassification to the World Group against Belarus. The current ATP number 69 made his debut with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Daniil Ostapenkov, in the fifth point and with the series already defined in favor of the Albicelestes.
as far as he could tell Ambitthe inclusion of the youngest of the Coria does not respond only to a sporting issue -which includes the quarterfinals in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro-, but also to an internal family with “Cacho”, father of both, who pressed for Federico is present in the national team.
On several occasions, “Fefo” alluded, in a joking tone, to the appointment of his brother as captain and the implications that this could have. “Unfortunately he took me out of the team, but we’ll fix it at home,” he said with a laugh in a television interview on the pitch after winning his debut at the last Argentina Open.
“I would have liked to have been in the first call and not because Fede was out, but I was prepared and I’m very happy. Now everything is fine at home, ha”the 29-year-old tennis player pointed out in the same official announcement made by the AAT.
Consulted by this medium about the change, the Argentine captain stated that they had already spoken with Delbonis in Córdoba about the possibility of leaving the team. “He came from having Covid-19 in Australia, and the doctor told him that there was not much room to do what had to be done. He decided to stop now, and for us it was hard because she warned him the previous Wednesday ”lamented Coria regarding the treatment.
“There were a couple of players that were even. Fede was very happy, he also had a good tour, he responded well here. It’s like he could not have been, it’s the same thing I say to the players who were left out. In the following series there may be changes “pointed out the former tennis player born in Venado Tuerto.
The rest of the team that will face the Czechs settled on a certain logic. Diego Schwartzmann and Horace Zeballos they constituted a fixture for the singles and doubles, respectively. Between Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez There was the couple from Mar del Plata: while “Molto” had better results during the year, “Machi” was finally chosen for the route made together with the number 5 in the world in the specialty.
For Báez it will be the first time in the Davis Cup. The growth that he experienced during 2021 and the results obtained during the beginning of this season led Coria to decide the debut of the 21-year-old from Buenos Aires, who in case of playing a point will be the 85th Argentine tennis player to compete for the Salad Bowl.
“It was difficult to choose the top five, we have many players who are on par, even”closed the captain, who in a few more hours will live his long-awaited debut in the Argentina chair.
Source: Ambito
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