ATP – Davis Cup Round 1

The shitshow… er, battle for the Davis Cup starts this weekend. Or something like that. Dear lord. Those poor Argies. The overwhelmingly interesting match-up is USA/Serbia, who DO have Nole (the biggest player in the whole of this round) and stand a chance against the BryBros since it’s on clay and they have Nenad. Serbia shouldn’t have much of a problem, but with the Two American Towers of Tree and Sammy Q, hopefully some epic drama goes down.

Thanks to New Balls, Please for the Davis Cup teams. Of which I am about to blatantly plagiarise.

Spain v Switzerland
Plaza de Toros de la Ribera, Logrono, Spain
H2H: Spain leads 4-1

Spain: David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro, Tommy Robredo, Marcel Granollers
Captain: Albert Costa

Switzerland: Stanislas Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli, Michael Lammer, Yves Allego
Captain: Severin Luthi

France v Germany
Palais des Sports – Toulon, France
H2H: France leads 5-2

France: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Michael Llodra, Julien Benneteau
Captain: Guy Forget

Germany: Philipp Kohlschreiber, Benjamin Becker, Simon Greul, Christopher Kas
Captain: Patrick Kuhnen

Russia v India
Small Sports Arena “Luzhniki” – Moscow, Russia
H2H: India leads 2-1

Russia: Nikolay Davydenko, Mikhail Youzhny, Teimuraz Gabashvili, Igor Kunitsyn
Captain: Shamil Tarpischev

India: Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi
Captain: Shiv-Prakash Misra

Sweden v Argentina
Kungliga Tennishallen – Stockholm, Sweden
H2H: 2-2

Sweden: Robin Soderling, Andreas Vinciguerra, Simon Aspelin, Robert Lindstedt
Captain: Mats Wilander

Argentina: Leonardo Mayer, Horacio Zeballos, Eduardo Schwank, Federico Del Bonis
Captain: Tito Vazquez

Croatia v Ecuador
Gradska Sportska Dvorana Varazdin – Varazdin, Croatia
H2H: 0-0

Croatia: Marin Cilic, Ivo Karlovic, Ivan Dodig, Antonio Veic
Captain: Goran Prpic

Ecuador: Nicolas Lapentti, Giovanni Lapentti, Ivan Endara, Julio-Cesar Campozano
Captain: Raul Viver

Serbia v United States
Belgrade Arena, Belgrade, Serbia
H2H: 0-0

Serbia: Novak Djokovic, Viktor Troicki, Janko Tipsarevic, Nenad Zimonjic
Captain: Bogdan Obradovic

United States: John Isner, Sam Querrey, Mike Bryan, Bob Bryan
Captain: Patrick McEnroe

Chile v Israel
Enjoy Tennis Center – Coquimbo, Chile
H2H: 1-1

Chile: Fernando Gonzalez, Nicolas Massu, Paul Capdeville, Jorge Aguilar
Captain: Hans Gildermeister

Israel: Dudi Sela, Harel Levy, Jonathan Erlich, Andy Ram
Captain: Eyal Ran

Belgium v Czech Republic
Expodroom Bree – Bree, Belgium
H2H: Czech Republic leads 7-3

Belgium: Olivier Rochus, Xavier Malisse, Steve Darcis, Christophe Rochus
Captain: Reginald Willems

Czech Republic: Tomas Berdych, Radek Stepanek, Jan Hajek, Lukas Dlouhy
Captain: Jaroslav Navratil

WTA – Monterrey (International)

Official Site: Here
Draw: Here
Top Seeds: JJ, Dani, Pavs, Domi

Do. Not. Care. Literally picked my WTA tennis pool team to set it up for picking going into IW. I didn’t even look to see who is playing in this tournament. Though I lucked out with Pavs and Lucie. Meh. Might watch the semis or something. (And yeah, epic weaksauce if JJ can’t win this friggin’ thing.)

Random Exo – Billie Jean King Cup

This all seemed so fun and new last year. And now it’s just blah. Sorry BJK. I’m curious to see how Ana performs having spent some time with the new coach (if she can toss a ball or hit a solid forehand I’ll be happy) and it will be fun to see Kim play. You know, for an entire two sets of no ad tennis. I’ll watch but… yeeeeaaaah.