The tennis season opens with him ATP Cup, the championship by countries that will award points for the ATP Rankings. For pandemic reasons, it was reduced to just 12 countries. Argentina will be the only Latin American country to participate and will have a tough group against Russia Medvedev y Rublev (eliminated the national team last year in the quarterfinals) and the always annoying Japanese team, led by Kei Nishikori.
The format will be 4 groups of 3 countries, where there will be no margin of error: only the winner of each zone will qualify for the semifinals. The Serbia of Novak Djokovic will seek to repeat the 2020 title and among its top contenders again is the Spain of Rafael Nadal. Of the top 17 of the ranking, they will only be missing Roger Federer (absent from Australia) and David Goffin who decided to participate in another tournament.
The Argentine team:
Diego Schwatzman:
He is coming off his best year in his career. After qualifying for the Masters Tournament and being top ten, this 2021 he will seek to establish himself.
Guido Pella:
The 30-year-old tennis player had his best performance in 2019, reaching the top 20 of the ATP ranking. Today it will be the Argentine single 2.
The doubles:
The doubles players will complete the team Horacio Zeballos and Máximo González, who between them achieved 24 ATP doubles titles between them.
Captain:
Jose Acasuso, Guido Pella’s coach, this time will be the one to take the strings of the Argentine team in the ATP Cup.
Argentina’s complete fixture in the ATP Cup:
Tuesday February 2:
03:30 Russia vs Argentina:
Andrey Rublev vs Guido Pella
Daniil Medvedev vs Diego Schwartzman
E. Donskoy / A. Karatsev vs M. Gonzalez / H. Zeballos
Thursday February 4:
03:30 Argentina vs Japan:
Guido Pella vs Yoshihito Nishioka
Diego Schwartzman vs Kei Nishikori
Doubles to be defined.
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