LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2022 – Tennis Channel will supply unique, dwell protection of the Davis Cup Finals Group Stage throughout a number of platforms Sept. 13-18, together with the three matches america will play in Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 14-17. The community will carry Davis Cup competitors on its unique 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 day by day, multi-hour motion begins Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 9 a.m. ET (schedule info under).
Since 1900 Davis Cup has decided the perfect nation in males’s tennis, with america profitable a document 32 cups. The Individuals’ most up-to-date title got here in 2017. Groups representing 16 nations 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 will likely be in opposition to Kazakhstan, Thursday, Sept. 15, additionally at 11 a.m. ET. The Individuals will wrap their group-stage schedule with Netherlands on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9 a.m. ET. All matches will likely be on Tennis Channel.
The community will commit near 50 dwell 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 Individuals in Glasgow this week. Bryan is one half of maybe the best doubles crew of all time: he and his twin brother Mike received an Open Period document 1,108 matches, all 4 majors, the year-end championships, 9 ATP Masters 1000 occasions and an Olympic gold medal. Additionally they received the clinching match on the 2017 Davis Cup Finals.
Prime-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 received the BNP Paribas Open singles championship in Indian Wells, Calif. Tommy Paul can also be having a personal-best yr in 2022, racking up 29 wins – his most in a single season – with two victories over high 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 received his second consecutive US Open doubles championship. Ram has a 2-0 Davis Cup document when taking part in doubles with Sock.
Along with the American stars, high 10-ranked gamers from world wide 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 Middle Courtroom protection, Davis Cup matches will likely be included amongst simultaneous males’s and ladies’s occasions from world wide. Full, day by day schedules could be discovered at: www.tennischannel.com/schedule.