Davis Cup 2022 draw: India to host Denmark in World Group I play-offs in March

India will host Denmark of their first residence Davis Cup tie since February 2019 within the World Group I contest, scheduled for March 4-5 subsequent 12 months. India traveled to Finland (2021), Croatia (2020) and Kazakhstan (2019, Pakistan tie) for his or her final three ties.

India hosted Italy at residence 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 could possibly nonetheless be thought of a positive draw for the hosts.It would be the first tie between the 2 nations since September 1984 when India received 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 within 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 informed 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 the top-200 in singles. We don’t have anyone in the top-100 for long.”We have been at all times underdogs however we at all times had the gamers to carry out very nicely within the Davis Cup, however proper now we’re struggling, so whoever we’re enjoying it’ll be a problem,” he said.Zeeshan felt a lot would depend on which players would be available for the tie.”The final time we didn’t have our primary participant with us was when Yuki was down with an harm. If we have now a full-strength workforce, if Sumit is match by March and Yuki can be accessible, we have now an excellent probability of beating Denmark in India,” he stated.Prajnesh Gunneswaran (215) has dropped out of the top-200 and Nagal, who just lately took a break to endure a hip harm, is now ranked 218.Ramkumar re-entered the top-200 after profitable a Challenger just lately.