Davis Cup 2021: Everything to know about the Teams, Groups and Fixtures

The 2021 season is about to finish and the Davis Cup Finals is around the corner. The prestigious team championship was called off last year due to the Coronavirus pandemic but is set to return this year with a revised format. Spain are the defending champions and enter this year as the top seeds.

The Round Robin matches will be played at Madrid, Turin and Innsbruck this year with all the knockout matches(semifinals and final) to be played in Madrid.

Most of the top players in the world including World No.1 Novak Djokovic and World No.2 Daniil Medvedev will compete for their respective nations. Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev are amongst the big players who won’t be seen at the Davis Cup this year.

The 18 qualified teams (seeding wise)

1. Spain
2. Canada
3. France
4. Croatia
5. USA
6. Serbia
7. Germany
8. Italy
9. Great Britain
10. Australia
11. Kazakhstan
12. Russia
13. Sweden
14. Austria
15. Czech Republic
16. Colombia
17. Hungary
18. Ecuador

The 18 teams are divided into 6 groups of 3 teams each. They will compete in a Round Robin format with the winner of each group moving into the quarterfinal along with two second-placed teams with the best records based on the percentage of matches won.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E	Group F
Spain	Canada	France	Croatia	USA	Serbia
Russia	Kazakhstan	Great Britain	Australia	Italy	Germany
Ecuador	Sweden	Czech Republic	Hungary	Colombia	Austria

Lineups of the 18 qualified teams

Team Spain

Pablo Carreno Busta

Roberto Bautista Agut

Carlos Alcaraz

Feliciano Lopez

Marcel Granollers

Team Canada

Félix Auger-Aliassime

Denis Shapovalov

Vasek Pospisil

Brayden Schnur

Peter Polansky

Team France

Ugo Humbert

Arthur Rinderknech

Richard Gasquet

Pierre-Hugues Herbert

Nicolas Mahut

Team Croatia

Marin Cilic

Borna Coric

Borna Gojo

Nikola Mektic

Mate Pavic

Team USA

John Isner

Reilly Opelka

Taylor Fritz

Jack Sock

Rajeev Ram

Team Serbia

Novak Djokovic

Dusan Lajovic

Filip Krajinovic

Laslo Djere

Miomir Kecmanovic

Team Russia

Daniil Medvedev

Andrey Rublev

Aslan Karatsev

Karen Khachanov

Evgeny Donskoy

Team Kazakhstan

Alexander Bublik

Mikhail Kukushkin

Dmitry Popko

Aleksandr Nedovyesov

Andrey Golubev

Team Great Britain

Cameron Norrie

Dan Evans

Joe Salisbury

Neal Skupski

Team Australia

Alex de Minaur

John Millman

Jordan Thompson

Alexei Popyrin

John Peers

Team Italy

Matteo Berrettini

Jannik Sinner

Lorenzo Sonego

Fabio Fognini

Lorenzo Musetti

Team Germany

Jan-Lennard Struff

Dominik Koepfer

Peter Gojowczyk

Kevin Krawietz

Tim Putz

Team Ecuador

Emilio Gomez

Roberto Quiroz

Diego Hidalgo

Gonzalo Escobar

Cayetano March

Team Sweden

Mikael Ymer

Elias Ymer

Jonathan Mridha

Andre Goransson

Team Czech Republic

Jiri Vesely

Tomas Machac

Zdenek Kolar

Jiri Lehecka

Lukas Rosol

Team Hungary

Marton Fucsovics

Attila Balázs

Zsombor Piros

Fabian Marozsan

Mate Valkusz

Team Colombia

Daniel Elahi Galan

Nicolas Mejia

Robert Farah

Juan Sebastián Cabal

Team Austria

Dennis Novak

Jurij Rodionov

Gerald Melzer

Oliver Marach

Philipp Oswald

Davis Cup 2021 Finals Fixtures

Round Robin Matches

November 25:

• Canada vs Sweden
• France vs Czech Republic
• Croatia vs Australia

November 26:

• Spain vs Ecuador
• USA vs Italy
• Serbia vs Austria

November 27:

• Russia vs Ecuador
• Kazakhstan vs Sweden
• France vs Great Britain
• Australia vs Hungary
• Italy vs Colombia
• Serbia vs Germany

November 28:

• Spain vs Russia
• Canada vs Kazakhstan
• Great Britain vs Czech Republic
• Croatia vs Hungary
• USA vs Colombia
• Germany vs Austria

Quarterfinals

• Group A winner vs best/2nd best runner-up (December 2)
• Group C winner vs Group F winner (November 30)
• Group E winner vs Group D winner (November 29)
• Group B winner vs best/2nd best runner-up (December 1)

Semifinals

• QF1 winner vs QF2 winner (December 4)
• QF3 winner vs QF4 winner (December 3)

Final

• SF1 winner vs SF2 winner (December 5)

Also read: Davis Cup 2021: Schedule, Timings, Important Dates, Prize Money, Live Stream and more