India To Host Denmark for Next Davis Cup Tie in March 2023

New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI) India have gotten their first house Davis Cup tie since February 2019 as they've been pitted towards Denmark in World Group I contest, scheduled for March 4-5 subsequent yr. India travelled to Finland (2021), Croatia (2020) and Kazakhstan (2019, Pakistan tie) for their final three ties. India hosted Italy at house in February 2019 and misplaced 1-3 in Kolkata. Even although Denmark has a singles participant in Holger Rune (103), who's higher-ranked than all of the Indian gamers, it will possibly nonetheless be thought of a beneficial draw for the hosts. Davis Cup 2021: Daniil Medvedev Stars As Russia Defeat Croatia To Lift Third Title It would be the first tie between the 2 nations since September 1984 when India gained 3-2 at Aarhus. The two groups haven't clashed a lot as the one different time they performed was in 1927 when Denmark whitewashed India 5-0 in the quarterfinal in Copenhagen. "Thank God, after many ties, we have got a home match. The previous two ties were tough for us, we played Croatia who made the Davis Cup finals. Then we played Finland and everyone thought Finland was an easy team, which was not the case," India coach Zeeshan Ali advised PTI. "India on paper are supposed to be a strong team but except Ramkumar Ramanathan, who is 190 in the world, we don't have anyone in top-200 in singles. We don't have anyone in top-100 for long. "We have been at all times underdogs however we at all times had the gamers to carry out very nicely in Davis Cup however proper now we're struggling, so whoever we're enjoying it may be a problem," he mentioned. Zeeshan felt lots would rely which gamers will probably be accessible for the tie. "The last time we did not have our number one player with us, then Yuki was down with injury. If we have a full-strength team, if Sumit is fit by March and Yuki is also available, we have a very good chance of beating Denmark in India," he mentioned. Prajnesh Gunneswaran (215) has dropped out of top-200 and Nagal, who lately took a break to endure hip damage, is now ranked 218. Ramkumar re-entered top-200 after profitable a Challenger lately.