Australia Hope To Host Davis Cup Tie

Australia stands a good chance to host the opening tie of the Davis cup world group competition next year

Last weekend, the team used everything in their arsenal to convincingly drub Poland 4-1 in what has inadvertently ended their 6 year long exile from the top echelons of the Davis Cup.

Draws for the 2014 opening round ties meant to match nations will take place on Wednesday night. Australia is widely expected to be matched with any of the top eight seeded nations.

The top four nations are Czech Republic, Spain, Serbia and Argentina. Czech Republic are the defending champions and booked their place in the final by beating Argentina. They will play Serbia in this year’s final for the trophy. USA, Kazakhstan, France and Canada complete the top seeded nations.

The draw makes it possible for countries to alternate venues every time they play. As such, Australia is likely to host a home time and inadvertently choose the playing surface they want.

The clashes will be located in Australia in the event that the Aussies draw Canada, USA, Argentina and Serbia. On the other hand, if the Aussies are drawn against France, Spain or Czech Republic the matches will be away while a draw against Kazakhstan will attract a tossing of the coin since the two sides have never met before.

Round one of the Davis cup will take place the weekend after the Australian open.

In other news, Lleyton Hewitt has made a commitment to play at the Kooyong tournament once more as he makes a build up to the Australia open.

Having been instrumental in helping his country overcome Poland, Hewitt will play in a new look AAMI classic the week before the onset of the Melbourne grand slam tournament.

Hewitt won the event year and as such will be one of the 8 players involved in the tournament. The tournament will also feature US open semi finalists Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka and Frances Richard Gasquet who are ranked 10^th and 9^th respectively.

Brian Cooney, who is the director of the classic tournament, asserted that the tournament is going to retain its round robin format in the year 2014 but organizers were exploring ways to make changes after that.

Cooney intimated that IMG, who are the organizers were considering the idea of expanding the eight man field and committing players to fewer matches.

"We've already opened talks with Tennis Australia, but mid-September is too late to be contemplating changes for next January." Cooney said Bernard Tomic is 81.00 likely to win the Australian open men’s singles while Czech Republic is 3.25 expected to win the Davis cup trophy. Serbia is priced at 1.33.

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