The Finals, formerly known as World Group, was the highest level of
Davis Cup
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competition in 2021. It was held on indoor hard courts at three venues in
Innsbruck
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, Austria,
Madrid
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, Spain and
Turin
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, Italy. The 2020 edition was originally scheduled to take place from 23 until 29 November 2020. However, on 26 June 2020, ITF announced that 2020 Finals would take place from 22 until 28 November 2021 due to
coronavirus pandemic
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and be named 2021 Davis Cup Finals. On 18 January 2021, ITF announced that the Finals would be expanded over 11 days, from 25 November to 5 December 2021. The ties were contested in a best-of-three rubbers format and played on one day. There were two singles followed by a doubles.
Spain
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were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round robin stage. The
Russian Tennis Federation
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won the title, defeating
Croatia
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in the final.
Andrey Rublev
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was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament after going 6–1 in both singles and doubles.
Participating teams
18 nations take part in the Finals.
The qualification was as follows:
* 4 semifinalists of the previous edition
* 2 wild card teams (announced by ITF on 23 November 2019 as France and Serbia)
* 12 winners of the
Qualifying Round
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, in March 2020
Overview
H = Host Nation, TH = Title-Holder, 2019F = Finalist from the 2019 tournament, 2019SF = Semi-Finalists from the 2019 tournament, WC = Wild Card
Seeds
The seedings were based on the Davis Cup Ranking of 9 March.
Spain, as 2019 champions, are seeded No. 1 and were drawn into Pool A. Canada, as 2019 runners-up, are seeded No. 2 and were drawn into Pool B. The four other highest-ranked nations (France, Croatia, USA and Serbia) are seeded 3–6. The nations in pot 2 were drawn randomly into position 2 and the nations in pot 3 were drawn randomly into position 3.
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Team nominations
SR = Singles ranking, DR = Doubles ranking. Rankings are as of 22 November 2021.
Format
The 18 teams were divided in six round robin groups of three teams each. The six group winners plus the two second-placed teams with the best records based on percentage of matches won (followed by percentage of sets won and then percentage of games won), qualified for the quarterfinals.
Group stage
Overview
T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets
Group A
Spain vs. Ecuador
RTF vs. Ecuador
Spain vs. RTF
Group B
Canada vs. Sweden
Kazakhstan vs. Sweden
Canada vs. Kazakhstan
Group C
France vs. Czech Republic
France vs. Great Britain
Great Britain vs. Czech Republic
Group D
Croatia vs. Australia
Australia vs. Hungary
Croatia vs. Hungary
Group E
United States vs. Italy
Italy vs. Colombia
United States vs. Colombia
Note: Cabal/Farah's retirement victory over Opelka/Sock counted as a 6–0, 6–0 win.
Group F
Serbia vs. Austria
Serbia vs. Germany
Germany vs. Austria
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Italy vs. Croatia
Great Britain vs. Germany
Serbia vs. Kazakhstan
RTF vs. Sweden
Semifinals
Croatia vs. Serbia
RTF vs. Germany
Final
RTF vs. Croatia
References
External links
Official website
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