Davis Cup / BNP Paribas, Federer, Wawrinka, & Andy Murray All Set To Play

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Nominations announced for Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group and Zone Group ties

The ITF has announced the official team nominations for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group quarterfinals and Zone Group ties taking place on 4-6 April. A total of 27 ties are taking place next week, while the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II play-off between Indonesia and Hong Kong, China has been rescheduled to take place on 25-27 April.

The eight winners of the Zone Group I second round ties will qualify for the World Group play-offs on 12-14 September, with the draw due to be held at the ITF offices in Roehampton on Tuesday 8 April at 10am GMT.

Davis Cup by BNP Paribas is the World Cup of Tennis. It is the largest annual international team competition in sport, with 122 nations taking part in 2014. The competition is 114 years old having been founded in 1900. The title sponsor is BNP Paribas, the Official Bank of Davis Cup. International sponsors are Rolex (Official Timekeeper)

WORLD GROUP QUARTERFINALS

JAPAN v CZECH REPUBLIC

Venue: Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo, JPN (hard – indoor)

Japan

Kei Nishikori

Go Soeda

Tatsuma Ito

Yasutaka Uchiyama

Captain: Minoru Ueda

Czech Republic

Lukas Rosol

Radek Stepanek

Jiri Vesely

Jan Hajek

Captain: Jaroslav Navratil

FRANCE v GERMANY

Venue: Palais Des Sports Jean Weille, Nancy, FRA (hard – indoor)

France

Richard Gasquet

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Gael Monfils

Julien Benneteau

Captain: Arnaud Clement

Germany

Tobias Kamke

Jan-Lennard Struff

Peter Gojowczyk

Andre Begemann

Captain: Carsten Arriens

ITALY v GREAT BRITAIN

Venue: Tennis Club Napoli, Naples, ITA (clay – outdoor)

Italy

Fabio Fognini

Andreas Seppi

Paolo Lorenzi

Simone Bolelli

Captain: Corrado Barazzutti

Great Britain

Andy Murray

Dan Evans

James Ward

Colin Fleming

Captain: Leon Smith

SWITZERLAND v KAZAKHSTAN

Venue: Palexpo, Geneva, SUI (hard – indoor)

Switzerland

Stanislas Wawrinka

Roger Federer

Marco Chiudinelli

Henri Laaksonen

Captain: Severin Luthi

Kazakhstan

Mikhail Kukushkin

Andrey Golubev

Aleksandr Nedovyesov

Evgeny Korolev

Captain: Dias Doskarayev

AMERICAS ZONE GROUP I SECOND ROUND

ECUADOR v BRAZIL

Venue: Francisco Segura Cano, Guayaquil, ECU (clay – outdoor)

Ecuador

Emilio Gomez

Julio-Cesar Campozano

Giovanni Lapentti

Gonzalo Escobar

Captain: Raul Viver

Brazil

Rogerio Dutra Silva

Guilherme Clezar

Bruno Soares

Marcelo Melo

Captain: Joao Zwetsch

COLOMBIA v DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Venue: Estadio de Tenis “Alvaro Carlos Jordan”, Cali, COL (clay – outdoor)

Colombia

Santiago Giraldo

Alejandro Falla

Juan-Sebastian Cabal

Robert Farah

Captain: Mauricio Hadad

Dominican Republic

Victor Estrella

Jose Hernandez

Roberto Cid

Peter Bertran

Captain: Rafael Moreno

ASIA/OCEANIA ZONE GROUP I SECOND ROUND

CHINA, P.R. v UZBEKISTAN

Venue: Tianjin Tennis Center, Tianjin, CHN (hard – outdoor)

China, P.R.

Wu Di

Zhang Ze

Li Zhe

Gong Maoxin

Captain: Jiang Wei

Uzbekistan

Denis Istomin

Farrukh Dustov

Temur Ismailov

Sanjar Fayziev

Captain: Petr Lebed

KOREA, REPUBLIC v INDIA

Venue: Spo1 Tennis Courts, Busan, KOR (hard – outdoor)

Korea, Republic

Lim Yong-Kyu

Chung Hyeon

Jeong Suk-Young

Lee Hyung-Taik

Playing captain: Lee Hyung-Taik

India

Somdev Devvarman

Yuki Bhambri

Saketh Myneni

Rohan Bopanna

Captain: Anand Amritraj

EUROPE/AFRICA ZONE GROUP I SECOND ROUND

POLAND v CROATIA

Venue: Torwar Hall, Warsaw, POL (hard – indoor)

Poland

Jerzy Janowicz

Michal Przysiezny

Mariusz Fyrstenberg

Marcin Matkowski

Captain: Radoslaw Szymanik

Croatia

Marin Cilic

Borna Coric

Mate Pavic

Marin Draganja

Captain: Zeljko Krajan

SLOVENIA v ISRAEL

Venue: SRC Marina Portoroz, SLO (clay – outdoor)

Slovenia

Blaz Kavcic

Blaz Rola

Grega Zemlja

Janez Semrajc

Captain: Blaz Trupej

Israel

Dudi Sela

Amir Weintraub

Jonathan Erlich

Andy Ram

Captain: Eyal Ran

SWEDEN v UKRAINE

Venue: Baltiska Hallen, Malmo, SWE (hard – indoor)

Sweden

Markus Eriksson

Isak Arvidsson

Robert Lindstedt

Johan Brunstrom

Captain: Fredrik Rosengren

Ukraine

Sergiy Stakhovsky

Denys Molchanov

Artem Smirnov

Sergei Bubka

Captain: Mikhail Filima

SLOVAK REPUBLIC v AUSTRIA

Venue: Aegon Arena, National Tennis Centre, Bratislava, SVK (hard – indoor)

Slovak Republic

Martin Klizan

Lukas Lacko

Andrej Martin

Michal Mertinak

Captain: Miloslav Mecir

Austria

Dominic Thiem

Andreas Haider-Maurer

Gerald Melzer

Alexander Peya

Captain: Clemens Trimmel

AMERICAS ZONE GROUP II SECOND ROUND

BARBADOS v EL SALVADOR

Venue: National Tennis Centre, St Michael, BAR (hard – outdoor)

Barbados

Darian King

Haydn Lewis

Seanon Williams

Russell Moseley

Captain: Kevin Yarde

El Salvador

Marcelo Arevalo

Rafael Arevalo

Salvador Bolanos

Juan Diego Telles

Captain: Roberto Salazar

MEXICO v PERU

Venue: Club Britania Zavaleta, Puebla, MEX (hard – outdoor)

Mexico

Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela

Miguel Gallardo-Valles

Cesar Ramirez

Santiago Gonzalez

Captain: Jorge Lozano

Peru

Duilio Beretta

Mauricio Echazu

Sergio Galdos

Rodrigo Sanchez

Captain: Luis Horna

AMERICAS ZONE GROUP II PLAY-OFF

CHILE v PARAGUAY

Venue: Club Palestino, Santiago, CHI (clay – outdoor)

Chile

Paul Capdeville

Gonzalo Lama

Christian Garin

Jorge Aguilar

Captain: Nicolas Massu

Paraguay

Ramon Delgado

Gustavo Ramirez

Juan-Carlos Ramirez

Juan Borba

Captain: Paulo Carvallo

BOLIVIA v GUATEMALA

Venue: Country Club Cochabamba, Cochabamba, BOL (clay – outdoor)

Bolivia

TBC

Guatemala

Christopher Diaz-Figueroa

Stefan Emilio Gonzalez

Andres Bucaro

Captain: Anthony Vasquez

ASIA/OCEANIA ZONE GROUP II SECOND ROUND

PHILIPPINES v PAKISTAN

Venue: Philippine Columbian Association, Manila, PHI (clay – indoor)

Philippines

Ruben Gonzales

Treat Huey

Johnny Arcilla

Patrick-John Tierro

Captain: Roland Kraut

Pakistan

Aisam Qureshi

Aqeel Khan

Yasir Khan

Muhammad Abid

Captain: Mohammed Khalid

THAILAND v KUWAIT

Venue: The National Tennis Development Centre, Nonthaburi, THA (hard – outdoor)

Thailand

Pruchya Isarow

Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul

Warit Sornbutnark

Nuttanon Kadchapanan

Captain: Graipetch Worasombat

Kuwait

Abdullah Maqdes

Mohammad Ghareeb

Abdulhameed Alshatti

Hasan Al Mousa

Captain: Khaled Al Foudari

ASIA/OCEANIA ZONE GROUP II PLAY-OFF

VIETNAM v SRI LANKA

Venue: The 198 Tennis Club, Da Lat City, VIE (hard – outdoor)

Vietnam

Thien Nguyen Hoang

Minh-Quan Do

Quoc-Khanh Le

Linh Giang Trinh

Playing captain: Minh-Quan Do

Sri Lanka

Harshana Godamanna

Dineshkanthan Thangarajah

Sharmal Dissanayake

Amresh Jayawickrema

Captain: Rohan De Silva

EUROPE/AFRICA ZONE GROUP II SECOND ROUND

SOUTH AFRICA v LITHUANIA

Venue: Irene Country Club, Centurion, RSA (hard – outdoor)

South Africa

Rik De Voest

Dean O’Brien

Ruan Roelofse

Raven Klaasen

Captain: John-Laffnie De Jager

Lithuania

Ricardas Berankis

Laurynas Grigelis

Lukas Mugevicius

Mantas Bugailiskis

Captain: Rimvydas Mugevicius

FINLAND v BOSNIA/HERZEGOVINA

Venue: Tali Tennis Center, Helsinki, FIN (hard – indoor)

Finland

Jarkko Nieminen

Henrik Sillanpaa

Juho Paukku

Henri Kontinen

Captain: Kim Tiilikainen

Bosnia/Herzegovina

Damir Dzumhur

Mirza Basic

Aldin Setkic

Tomislav Brkic

Captain: Aljosa Piric

MOLDOVA v BELARUS

Venue: Manejul de Atletica Usoara, Chisinau, MDA (clay – indoor)

Moldova

Radu Albot

Maxim Dubarenco

Andrei Ciumac

Andrei Gorban

Captain: Iurie Gorban

Belarus

Egor Gerasimov

Uladzimir Ignatik

Dzmitry Zhyrmont

Max Mirnyi

Captain: Vladimir Voltchkov

DENMARK v LUXEMBOURG

Venue: Hillerod Tennis Klub, DEN (hard – indoor)

Denmark

Frederik Nielsen

Martin Pedersen

Mikael Torpegaard

Thomas Kromann

Captain: Kenneth Carlsen

Luxembourg

Ugo Nastasi

Mike Scheidweiler

Gilles Kremer

Christophe Tholl

Captain: Johny Goudenbour

EUROPE/AFRICA ZONE GROUP II PLAY-OFFS

NORWAY v MONACO

Venue: Oslo Tennis Arena, Oslo, NOR (hard – indoor)

Norway

Joachim Bjerke

Viktor Durasovic

Stian Boretti

Erling Tveit

Captain: Anders Haseth

Monaco

Benjamin Balleret

Romain Arneodo

Thomas Oger

Guillaume Couillard

Captain: Christophe Boggetti

GREECE v BULGARIA

Venue: Ilioupoli Tennis Club, Athens, GRE (clay – outdoor)

Greece

Theodoros Angelinos

Alexandros Jakupovic

Markos Kalovelonis

Charalampos Kapogiannis

Captain: George Kalovelonis

Bulgaria

Grigor Dimitrov

Dimitar Kutrovsky

Tihomir Grozdanov

Dinko Halachev

Captain: Todor Enev

IRELAND v EGYPT

Venue: Castleknock Tennis Club, Dublin, IRL (hard – indoor)

Ireland

James McGee

Sam Barry

Daniel Glancy

James Cluskey

Captain: Garry Cahill

Egypt

Mohamed Safwat

Karim Hossam

Sherif Sabry

Mazen Osama

Captain: Khaled Baligh

MOROCCO v CYPRUS

Venue: Complexe Sportif Al Amal, Casablanca, MAR (clay – outdoor)

Morocco

Lamine Ouahab

Hicham Khaddari

Mehdi Ziadi

Ayoub Chakrouni

Captain: Mehdi Tahiri

Cyprus

Sergis Kyratzis

Petros Chrysochos

Constantinos Ioannides

Soteris Hadjistyllis

Captain: Demetris Herodotou

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