The first obstacle of the Argentine Davis Cup team after his Davis Cup first called Romania. David Nalbandian will attempt to open the series with a win against Monaco Ungur to go quiet before Hanescu. The David Nalbandian, concerning national tennis in the last ten years, will face today with Romanian Adrian Ungur in the game that will open the best-of five points between Argentina and Romania, the opening round of Group Davis Cup World.
The tie to be played at the stadium Mary Teran de Weiss, Villa Soldati, will begin today at 11 to the intersection Nalbandian, 19th in the ATP world rankings, and Ungur (183), by him to the draw.
then be played the second point from Tandil Juan Monaco (33) and Romanian Victor Hanescu (59), the player to beat the European team to secure the series.
Meanwhile, tomorrow from 11 will develop the point of doubles with Juan Ignacio Chela (31) and Eduardo Schwank (122) to the Europeans Hanescu and Horia Tecau, the latter a specialist in the game of doubles and 16th in world rankings .
On Sunday, from 11, will face Nalbandian and Hanescu, then Monaco to Ungur, although in this case will be key outcomes of the previous days to keep the players as being the series defined the captains are allowed to change.
also this weekend ruled that implemented the new International Tennis Federation (ITF), referred to in the event that the fifth point is irrelevant to the outcome of the tie, will be played best of three sets and not five as is customary in Davis Cup, or it may be terminated by agreement between the captains of each team.
This implementation is valid for the series that will face Argentina and Romania and to all of the opening round of World Group and promotion.
Argentina, Davis Cup semifinals last year (lost to France in Lyon) is the favorite team to advance to the quarterfinals, a body which will again reach local, between 8 and 10 July, against the winner of the crossing that will encourage in Ostrava, the Czech Republic and Kazakhstan local.
Romania, meanwhile, moved to the elite group after beating last year in a playoff to Ecuador and arrived in Buenos Aires with a preparation consisting of players who made the South American tour on clay, without good results but with adaptation to the surface.
David begins the series
On the first point, the Cordoba Nalbandian, winner of 11 titles in the circuit and a finalist this year in Auckland in his best season production should have no problems with Ungur, it has never faced.
The Romanian was prepared without positive results, with a defeat in the opening round of qualifying for the ATP of Buenos Aires against Argentina's Pablo Galdón, and then in Acapulco had better luck and passed the qualifier, but met with the input English Ferrer and even then it was his experience.
Meanwhile, in the second point, Monaco Del Potro will face the best bike of the Romanians, the lanky Hanescu, 29, 1.98 meters tall and very experienced in the circuit, with a history of having reached the quarter- final in Buenos Aires and have been defeated in the initial rounds of Costa Do Sauipe and Acapulco.
"We respect, but we are superior"
Modesto Tito Vazquez, the Argentine captain, said yesterday that Romania respects to a rival, but also believes that his players are superior and heavily favored to win five points in the series.
"Romania deserves respect, has a good double and Victor Hanescu, with experience in Davis. Anyway, we are the favorite with home advantage and the surface for us, so we can earn five points of the series, announced the captain. Vázquez
worried throughout the week to recover to David Nalbandian, affected by an inguinal hernia, and prepared to Del Potro Juan Monaco especially for the match against Hanescu, the player to beat.
"Hanescu is good, not excellent as Nalbandian, but could complicate his tennis. We achieved a goal in our players recover physically, but now we go the more important, which is ratified in the field showed good practices. "
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