Davis Cup 2024: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed that the AO Arena in Manchester will host a 2023 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage event (12-17 September). Manchester will become the fifth different UK city to host a stage of the men’s World Cup of Tennis in the last 10 years joining Coventry, Glasgow, London and Birmingham. Follow Davis Cup 2024 Updates with InsideSport.IN.
It will be the first time that the city has hosted Davis Cup action since Great Britain played Romania in a Europe/Africa Group I tie at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in July 1994.
The draw for the 2023 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage will take place in Malaga, Spain on Wednesday 29 March at 16:00 local time. The draw will be streamed live on the ITF YouTube channel. The three remaining Group Stage hosts will be confirmed at the ceremony.
The draw will see the 16 competing nations drawn into four groups of four teams.Group winners and runners-up will progress to the Final 8 knockout stage in Malaga on 21-26 November 2023. The draw for the Final 8 will take place following the Group Stage in September.
Canada and Australia, as 2022 champions and runners-up, respectively, will be seeded No. 1 and No. 2 for the draw, with Spain seeded No. 3 and Croatia seeded No. 4.
The 16 nations competing in the Finals have been placed into four pots. The four seeded nations are in Pot 1, while the remaining 12 nations have been distributed in Pots 2-4 according to the current Davis Cup Nations Ranking. The four host nations will be drawn in separate groups.
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