We know the team nominations for the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals. Germans count on Zverev, Murray returns

110. the first part of the final phase of the famous tennis competition, called the Davis Cup Finals 2022, will take place in September.All sixteen teams that have the opportunity to compete for the “salad bowl” have announced their nominations. The Czechs failed to qualify from the March qualifier against Argentina and will now face Israel in the so-called World Group 1.

There are four final groups and they will be played at different venues. From September 13 to 18, Bologna, Italy, Valencia, Spain, Hamburg, Germany, and Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow, will see elite national tennis.

The top two teams from each of the foursomes will advance to play each other in a knockout fashion from the quarter-finals at the final tournament in Málaga from 22-27 November.

There will be no shortage of star names in the group fights. The losers of last year’s final, which was dominated this year by the eliminated Russians, are the Croatians, who have Marin Cilic in their ranks. Novak Djokovic will headline the Serbian team.

For the first time since 2019, Britain’s Andy Murray will play in the Davis Cup. We can look forward to the young Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz, whose teammates include Rafael Nadal. In the Italian team we can find Berrettini or Sinner.

The defeated Czech team from Argentina have Diego Schwartzman in their midst. The current highest-ranked tennis player on the ATP singles rankings who is nominated for the group stage, in the absence of Russia’s Medvedev, is Germany’s Alexander Zverev. Meanwhile, the world number two is still recovering from a serious ankle injury from this year’s French Open.

Check out the full rosters of the top 16 countries in this year’s Davis Cup below. For comparison, the players’ current singles ranking is listed. However, some tennis players are doubles specialists or have better results in this tennis discipline, and so the ranking in the doubles ranking is next to their name.

Group A (Bologna)

Croatia:: Vedran Martić (captain), Marin Čilić (17th), Borna Ćorić (152nd), Borna Gojo (176th), Mate Pavić (10th in doubles), Nikola Mektić (13th in doubles)

Italy: Filippo Volandri (captain), Jannik Sinner (12th), Matteo Berrettini (15th), Lorenzo Musetti (33rd), Fabio Fognini (61st in singles, 27th in doubles), Simone Bolelli (34th in doubles)

Argentina: Guillermo Coria (captain), Diego Schwartzman (16th), Francisco Cerundolo (27th), Sebastián Báez (35th), Horacio Zeballos (5th in doubles), Máximo González (50th in doubles)

Sweden:: Johan Hedsberg (captain), Mikael Ymer (77th), Elias Ymer (135th), Jonathan Mridha (511th), Karl Friberg (552nd), André Göransson (83rd in doubles)

Group B (Valencia)

Spain: Sergi Bruguera (captain), Carlos Alcaraz (4th), Pablo Carreño Busta (14th), Roberto Bautista Agut (19th), Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (37th), Marcel Granollers (6th in doubles)

Canada: Frank Dancevic (captain), Vasek Pospisil (145th), Alexis Galarneau (241st), Liam Draxl (498th), Gabriel Diallo (553rd), Cleeve Harper (784th in doubles)

Serbia: Viktor Troicki (captain), Novak Djokovic (6th), Miomir Kecmanovic (36th), Filip Krajinovic (46th), Laslo Djere (86th), Dusan Lajovic (87th)

South Korea:: Seungkyu Park (captain), Kwon Soon-woo (79th), Hong Seong-chan (478th), Nam Ji-sung (532nd), Song Min-Kyu (232nd in doubles)

Group C (Hamburg)

France: Sébastien Grosjean (captain), Benjamin Bonzi (48th), Adrian Mannarino (63rd), Arthur Rinderknech (64th), Nicolas Mahut (21st in doubles)

Germany:: Michael Kohlmann (captain), Alexander Zverev (2nd), Oscar Otte (41st), Jan-Lennard Struff (125th), Tim Pütz (12th in doubles), Kevin Krawietz (28th in doubles)

Belgium:: Johan Van Herck (captain), David Goffin (62nd), Zizou Bergs (154th), Michael Geerts (231st), Sander Gillé (72nd in doubles), Joran Vliegen (91st in doubles)

Australia: Lleyton Hewitt (captain), Alex de Minaur (20th), Thanasi Kokkinakis (75th), Matthew Ebden (644th in singles, 36th in doubles), Max Purcell (209th in singles, 37th in doubles)

Group D (Glasgow)

USA:: Mardy Fish (captain), Taylor Fritz (13th), Frances Tiafoe (25th), Tommy Paul (31st), Jack Sock (109th in singles, 41st in doubles), Rajeev Ram (2nd in doubles)

Great Britain: Leon Smith (captain), Cameron Norrie (11th), Daniel Evans (23rd), Andy Murray (47th), Joe Salisbury (1st in doubles) (One more name to be added later.)

Kazakhstan: Yuri Shchukin (captain), Alexander Bublik (42nd), Mikhail Kukushkin (213th), Dmitry Popko (219th), Andrey Golubev (47th in doubles)

Netherlands: Paul Haarhuis (captain), Botic van de Zandschulp (24th), Tallon Griekspoor (45th), Tim van Rijthoven (121st), Wesley Koolhof (3rd in doubles), Matwe Middelkoop (24th in doubles)

Source: Davis Cup, ATP