LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2022 – Tennis Channel will provide unique, stay protection of the Davis Cup Finals Group Stage throughout a number of platforms Sept. 13-18, together with the three matches the USA will play in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 14-17. The community will carry Davis Cup competitors on its authentic linear tv community, its subscription streaming service Tennis Channel Plus and T2 – its second linear tv community – which is free on Samsung TV Plus. The every day, multi-hour motion begins Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 9 a.m. ET (schedule info beneath).
Since 1900 Davis Cup has decided the very best nation in males’s tennis, with the USA successful a file 32 cups. The People’ most up-to-date title got here in 2017. Groups representing 16 international locations will meet in 4 cities this week, separated into 4 teams of 4 every. Every crew will play three matches in opposition to the others in its group, with the top-two groups in every pool advancing to the Davis Cup Finals in late November.
America Davis Cup crew will play Britain Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 11 a.m. ET. Its subsequent match might be in opposition to Kazakhstan, Thursday, Sept. 15, additionally at 11 a.m. ET. The People will wrap their group-stage schedule with Netherlands on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9 a.m. ET. All matches might be on Tennis Channel.
The community will commit near 50 stay tv hours to Davis Cup Finals Group Stage protection, with greater than 40 encore hours. Longtime commentator and former gamers Leif Shiras (@ShirasLeif) and Jan-Michael Gambill (@JanmikeGambill), together with announcer Ari Wolf, will man Tennis Channel’s Davis Cup desk.
With United States’ captain Mardy Fish recovering from Covid-19, performing captain Bob Bryan will helm the People in Glasgow this week. Bryan is one half of maybe the best doubles crew of all time: he and his twin brother Mike gained an Open Period file 1,108 matches, all 4 majors, the year-end championships, 9 ATP Masters 1000 occasions and an Olympic gold medal. Additionally they gained the clinching match on the 2017 Davis Cup Finals.
High-ranked American singles participant Taylor Fritz (World No. 12) leads the U.S. crew into motion. Fritz achieved a profession milestone this spring when he gained the BNP Paribas Open singles championship in Indian Wells, Calif. Tommy Paul can be having a personal-best 12 months in 2022, racking up 29 wins – his most in a single season – with two victories over prime five-ranked gamers, one other first for him. Jack Sock is a Wimbledon and US Open doubles champion and Olympic mixed-doubles gold medalist. World No. 2 doubles participant Rajeev Ram rounds out the squad and simply gained his second consecutive US Open doubles championship. Ram has a 2-0 Davis Cup file when enjoying doubles with Sock.
Along with the American stars, prime 10-ranked gamers from around the globe will compete on this week’s Davis Cup group stage. Amongst them: all-time nice Novak Djokovic (Serbia), Alexander Zverev (Germany), Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) and Cameron Norrie (Britain). The group breakdown is as follows:
Group A (Bologna, Italy): Argentina, Croatia, Italy, Sweden
Group B (Valencia, Spain): Canada, Serbia, South Korea, Spain
Group C (Hamburg, Germany): Australia, Belgium, France, Germany
Group D (Glasgow, Scotland): Britain, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, United States
As a part of the community’s Heart Court docket protection, Davis Cup matches might be included amongst simultaneous males’s and girls’s occasions from around the globe. Full, every day schedules could be discovered at: www.tennischannel.com/schedule.