Canada to be seeded in Davis Cup World Group in 2015

The new rankings are complete after last weekend's Davis Cup action, in which Canada defeated Colombia in Halifax to remain in the 16-country World Group of nations.

And the good news is that Canada snuck into the No. 8 spot. That means it can avoid some of the powerhouse teams – Serbia, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic – in the first round of next year's competition, slated for March 6-8, 2015.

The two countries who will meet in this year's finals are automatically seeded No. 1 and No. 2.

Here are the seeds:

1. France
2. Switzerland
3. Czech Republic
4. Serbia
5. Argentina
6. Italy
7. USA
8. Canada

The seeding also means that Canada cannot meet the U.S. in an all North-American Davis Cup tie, at least not in the first round

Davis Cup ties rotate home-court advantage, so if Canada met their opponent at home the last time (this doesn't apply if the teams last played prior to 1971), they will go on the road, and vice-versa. If the countries have never met or played prior to that cut-off date, home court is decided by a coin flip.

The Canadians are going to have to hope for a bit of luck; only two potential ties are guaranteed home ties. The rest will be random.

Australia (coin flip; the teams last met in 1964, at the Mount Royal Tennis Club in Montreal)

Belgium: (coin flip; the teams last met in 1913, the first year Canada took part in Davis Cup)

Brazil: (home; the teams last played in Brazil in 2007)

Croatia: (coin flip; the teams have never met)

Germany: (coin flip; the teams have never met)

Great Britain: (coin flip; the teams last met in 1967)

Japan (at home; Japan defeatead a depleted Canadian squad last February in Tokyo)

Kazakhstan: (coin flip; the teams have never met)