The USTA announced the venue where the next March 4 and 5 the United States will receive Colombia for the round of Davis Cup Qualifiers 2022.
The highest body of American tennis revealed that Reno, in the State of Nevada, will be the city that will host this confrontation, exactly in the Reno Events Center.
The hosts will use an indoor fast court in this scenario, almost the same conditions in which these two countries met last time in the Davis Cup Finals, where Colombia took the win 2-1.
The Reno Events Center has hosted sporting events in its history such as the olympic trials United States boxing tournament and the men’s basketball tournament of the NCAA, so it already has experience in this type of event.
The winner of the confrontation will qualify for the Davis Cup Finals 2022, a tournament that will be played at the end of the year in four different cities, for the round robin phase, and then in a fifth neutral city for the knockout series. While the loser will have to play in September the World Group I.
This confrontation will be played in five game format: on the first day there will be two singles matches, while the second will start with the doubles match and will end with two singles.
In the coming weeks the captain of Team Colombia, Alexander Fails, will announce the payroll with which it will face this new challenge. The former tennis player referred to the selection of the venue by U.S:
“As for the court, it is a covered court so it is fast, it is at 1,300 meters more or less, which is favorable for us who are used to being at high altitudes., But it’s going to be a tough series. There are five games, we have to win three points and we hope to be ready”
The face to face between Colombia and the United States is tied 2-2: the North Americans won 5-0 in 1979, for the Americas final that was played in the city of Cleveland. They also took victory in the 2010 World Group play-offs, which was played in the Plaza de Toros La Santamaría in Bogotá.
While Colombia He got his two wins in 1974, by the final of Americas which took place in the The Lizards Club of Bogota. While the next success was in 2021 at the Davis Cup Finals in Turin, Italy.
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