Davis Cup: All it’s essential learn about India vs Denmark tie

Davis Cup motion will return to India for the primary time since 2019 when they are going to host Denmark on Match 4 and 5 at Delhi’s Gymkhana Club.

The final time Delhi’s Gymkhana Club hosted the Davis Cup was within the winter of 1966 when India locked horns with West Germany. The Gymkhana membership has 28 grass courts, solely subsequent to Wimbledon, which has 41 grass courts.

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The legend of Leander Paes grew in Davis Cup as a result of he actually toyed with the European gamers together with his unimaginable skill-set on grass courts throughout house ties. In the present technology, Yuki Bhambri and Ramkumar Ramanathan’s sport is well-equipped to make life powerful for rivals on grass.

The Indian group would look to take advantage of the house benefit and emerge victorious within the World Group I Play-off tie on March 4-5.

India travelled to Finland (2021), Croatia (2020) and Kazakhstan (2019, Pakistan tie) for his or her final three ties.

India hosted Italy at house in February 2019 and misplaced 1-3 in Kolkata.

The final time India hosted a tie on grass courts was in July 2016, when it beat Korea 4-1 in Chandigarh however when it travelled to Italy in February 2019, the Indian group misplaced 1-3 on the identical floor, towards higher grass-court gamers.

Interestingly, It would be the first tie between the 2 nations since September 1984 when India gained 3-2 at Aarhus.

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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.

Rohan Bopanna would be the most skilled participant within the Indian squad. The former world quantity three and solely the fourth Indian with a Grand Slam trophy is among the greatest servers within the sport at present. None of the members of the present Indian group, which will probably be taking part in towards Denmark are ranked contained in the top-100. Ramkumar Ramanathan (177) is the highest-ranked Indian with compatriots Rohan Bopanna (213), Prajnesh Gunneswaran (232), Yuki Bhambri (662), Divij Sharan (1558) and reserves Saketh Myneni (602) and Digvijay Pratap Singh (non-ranked) method off the mark.

The 27-year-old Mikael Torpegaard is the best-ranked participant within the Denmark group at 278.

Fans will probably be allowed

Indian tennis followers will probably be allowed to attend the Davis Cup tie between India and Denmark on the Delhi Gymkhana Club.

Spectators haven’t been allowed inside sporting venues in most cities for the reason that Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020. All main tournaments, together with tennis occasions, have been held in bio-bubbles beneath strict restrictions.

Announcing the event, the organising committee of the Davis Cup tie additionally revealed that tickets to the upcoming matches will probably be free.

“We are building a seating capacity of 3,800. There won’t be any priced tickets. All tickets will be complimentary on first cum first serve basis,” mentioned Om Pathak, who’s a Delhi Gymkhana Club administrator and organising committee co-chairman.