Davis Cup: what Italy needs to qualify for finals

Davis Cup: what Italy needs to qualify for the finals

We have reached the decisive challenges of Group A qualifying for the Davis Cup finals in Malaga being played at the Unipol Arena in Bologna. Today it will be Canada-Chile, while tomorrow it will be Italy’s turn against Sweden.

They will go to play in Spain from November 21 to 26 the first two placed in this round and right now Canada has two wins, Chile and Italy one win and one loss, Sweden one defeat.

È it is therefore essential that the Azzurri beat Sweden but it could all be for nothing if Chile beats Canada 3-0 today. Only with certain combinations in fact the boys led by Filippo Volandri can hope to go to Malaga.

Their fate does not totally depend on them: è it is true that in case of parity; with Chile they won the direct clash, but they lost more sets, 9 against 7, and this discriminator in case of parity; in the standings counts more; if both Italy and Chile should win their challenges co or same score, either 3-0 or 2-1.

Here are the combinations favorable to us.

– Canada beats Chile and Italy beats Sweden by any score;
– Italy beats Sweden 3-0 and Chile beats Canada 2-1;
– l’Italy beats Sweden 2-1 and Chile does not beat Canada;
– Italy beats Sweden 2-1 and Chile beats Canada with the same score but losing one set more than us in the total set tally, since there would be the avulse ranking.