WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., January 6, 2023 – The USTA introduced that Tommy Paul, Jenson Brooksby, Mackenzie McDonald, Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek will symbolize the U.S. for its Davis Cup by Rakuten Qualifying tie vs. Uzbekistan February 3-4 on the Olympic Tennis Faculty in Tashkent.
An interim captain for the tie will probably be named within the close to future, because the USTA and Mardy Fish mutually agreed to maneuver in a brand new route with the Davis Cup captaincy in 2023. Additional data on the seek for a brand new full-time captain may also be introduced at a later date.
Davis Cup is the World Cup of Males’s Tennis and is the most important worldwide staff competitors in world sport, with practically 150 nations competing annually. The Qualifier vs. Uzbekistan is a best-of-five match collection performed over two days, starting with two singles matches on Friday, February 3.A doubles match and two reverse singles matches will observe on Saturday, February 4. The primary to win three of these matches will advance to the 2023 Davis Cup Finals – a 16-nation, multi-city competitors held later this 12 months, culminating with the Ultimate 8 stage in November in Malaga, Spain.
The U.S. is 2-0 all-time vs. Uzbekistan – a 3-1 victory in Tashkent within the 2015 World Group Playoffs and a 4-0 win within the 2020 Qualifiers in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Paul, 25, is ranked No. 32 in singles and is a career-high No. 28. He’s performed in six ties for the U.S. Davis Cup staff and made his debut towards Uzbekistan within the 2020 Qualifiers in Honolulu, defeating Denis Istomin, 6-3, 6-0, in a lifeless singles match.
Brooksby, 22, is ranked No. 48 in singles and is a career-high No. 33. That is the debut Davis Cup nomination for the Sacramento native, who reached the fourth spherical of the 2021 US Open as a 20-year-old – the youngest American to take action since Andy Roddick in 2002 – and reached three ATP Tour singles finals during the last two seasons.
McDonald, 27, is ranked No. 63 and is a career-high No. 48. That is additionally the primary Davis Cup nomination for the 2016 NCAA singles and doubles champion out of UCLA, who was named the ATP Tour’s Comeback Participant of the Yr in 2021.
Ram, 38, is ranked No. 3 in doubles and is a career-high world doubles No. 1. He’s competed in 5 Davis Cup ties over the previous two years and elevated his profession doubles title depend to 26 in 2022, together with titles gained on the US Open and the Nitto ATP Finals.
Krajicek, 32, is ranked No. 10 in doubles and is a career-high doubles No. 9. A 2020 Tokyo Olympian, that is the debut Davis Cup nomination for Krajicek, a former NCAA doubles champion at Texas A&M who has gained seven profession ATP doubles titles, together with three in 2022.
For extra data, together with entry to participant and historic data, go to www.usta.com/daviscup or www.daviscup.com.
