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Canada gets home-court advantage for crucial Davis Cup World Group playoff tie
The news came shortly after 6 a.m. EDT., from the ITF's offices in London.
To remain in the Davis Cup World Group for 2015, Canada must defeat Colombia.
Even better, they get to do it at home.
The tie will be played Sept. 12-14, right after the U.S. Open final in New York. And the Canadians could have found themselves traveling to India, or Ukraine, or even Uzbekhistan. So this is a very good outcome.
Later Monday morning, Tennis Canada provided this quote from captain Martin Laurendeau:
“Our team has demonstrated over the past three years that we are indeed a World Group nation,. We have the entire summer to prepare and get everyone playing their best tennis so that we can take on Colombia in September and keep our place where we believe we belong – among the elite tennis countries in the world. We have been on the road for two straight ties now and it will be nice to be back at home where we can choose the conditions and play in front of a supportive crowd.”
Colombia is hardly a pushover.
It boasts two credible singles players in Santiago Giraldo and Alejandro Falla, and a very solid doubles team in Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah.
Farah, by the way, was born in Montreal and still has family here.
In other news, if Spain and Rafael Nadal want to stay in the World Group, they must travel all the way down to Brazil in September. And if Serbia and Novak Djokovic want to do the same, they must journey all the way to India.
Here's how the playoff draw shook out for the seeded nations.
(1) Serbia: AWAY vs. India
(2) Spain: AWAY vs. Brazil
(3) Argentina: AWAY vs. Israel
(4) Canada: HOME vs. Colombia
(5) U.S.: HOME vs. Slovak Republic.
(6) Australia: HOME vs. Uzbekistan
(7) Croatia AWAY vs. Netherlands
(8) Belgium. AWAY vs. Ukraine
The Americans, Canadians and Australians were the only seeded nations to get a home tie.
Canada and Colombia are familiar foes from the Americas Zone days.
They met in 2007 at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, and played on that skating rink of a Taraflex surface the Canadians used to favour at home. But although the Colombians had Giraldo and Falla back then, they were a lot younger. The Canadians were a completely different team, with Frank Dancevic and Fred Niemeyer playing singles, and Niemeyer teaming up with Daniel Nestor for doubles.
The two squads met again in March, 2010. But this time it was in Colombia (hence the home tie this time).
The outcome there wasn't quite as sweet, with Canada losing 4-1.
Since then, the Colombians also have come up with an additional viable player in Alejandro Gonzalez, a 25-year-old who jumped into the top 75 this season for the first time.
And now, the lobbying to host the tie begins. No doubt Vancouver, which has hosted two terrific World Group ties, will have its hand up – as soon as it wakes up.
