The International Tennis Federation announced the draw for the 2017 Davis Cup World Group on Thursday afternoon in London. Argentina and Croatia are automatically the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds as this year’s two finalists and are therefore on opposite sides of the bracket.
Croatia will host Spain, which is back in the World Group after having been demoted in 2016. The Argentines, who will be on the road for the Davis Cup final in November, will host Italy.
World Group
First round (3-5 February)
Argentina [s] [c] vs. Italy
Germany [c] vs. Belgium [s]
Australia [c] vs. Czech Republic [s]
USA [c] vs. Switzerland [s]
Japan [c] vs. France [s]
Canada [c] [*] vs. Great Britain [s]
Serbia [s] [c] vs. Russia
Croatia [s] [c] vs. Spain
The United States will host Switzerland after it guaranteed a return trip to the World Group by winning at Australia during first-round action this season. As for the Swiss, they had to play their way back into the main draw and did so by beating Uzbekistan in a playoff tie last week.
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Croatia to win DC then lose first round the next year
I know I’m being pedantic but the noun for people from Argentina is Argentinians not Argentines. An Argentine is a small silver fish 🙂
Ricky could use a good ed-itor!!!
Don’t you? Or do you. ?
It actually seems to be possible in 3 different ways:
Argentine, Argentinian.. and even Argentinean.
Argentinean is an esoteric spelling emanating from America 🙂
Don’t mess with The Ed-itor!!!!
Boom!
ed, are you American or British?
I’m guessing Brit.
You have a very English name. 🙂
The draw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Davis_Cup