Italy will play for a Davis Cup three-peat with out its prime two singles stars.
Lorenzo Musetti confirmed he has withdrawn from subsequent week’s Davis Cup Ultimate 8 in Bologna. Musetti, who misplaced to Carlos Alcaraz in his closing ATP Finals round-robin match yesterday, joins world No. 2 Jannik Sinner who had beforehand pulled out of the Davis Cup competitors.
Musetti cited fatigue from his prolonged play to qualify for the ATP Finals in Turin—he performed Athens and reached the ultimate final Saturday dropping to Novak Djokovic in a marathon match—and the actual fact his long-time associate Veronica is pregnant and anticipating the couple’s second little one as his main causes for withdrawing.
“Given my bodily situation and my household state of affairs, in settlement with captain Filippo Volandri, I’ve determined to not take part within the Davis Cup finals in Bologna,” stated Musetti.
“Clearly, there’s a whole lot of remorse and disappointment for a way I got here into this competitors. With a greater strategy, maybe I’d have tried to play it, regardless of the household dedication. I knew that bodily fatigue was tough to shake off after the battles of the previous couple of months, and particularly the previous couple of weeks, in in the future.”
Wimbledon winner Sinner has led Italy to the Davis Cup championship in every of the final two years.
The 113th Davis Cup Ultimate 8 dates for subsequent week are right here:
QUARTERFINAL 1 – France v Belgium
Tuesday November 18th – 16.00 (CET)
QUARTERFINAL 2 – Italy v Austria
Wednesday, November nineteenth – 16.00 (CET)
QUARTERFINAL 3 -Spain v Czechia
Thursday, November twentieth – 10.00 (CET)
QUARTERFINAL 4 – Argentina v Germany
Thursday, November twentieth – 17.00 (CET)
SEMIFINAL 1 (QF1 v QF2)
Friday, November twenty first – 16.00 (CET)
SEMIFINAL 2 (QF3 v QF4)
Saturday, November twenty second – 12.00 (CET)
FINAL
Sunday, November twenty third – 15.00 (CET)
