AUSTRALIA vs CANADA IN THE 2022 DAVIS CUP FINAL
Date: twenty seventh November, 2022
Venue: Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena, Malaga
Surface: Indoor arduous court docket
AUSTRALIA TEAM
Captain: Lleyton Hewitt (13 wins 7 losses – report as captain)
Alex de Minaur, age 23 (world No.24 singles, No.198 doubles)
Jordan Thompson, age 28 (No.84 singles, No.466 doubles)
Thanasi Kokkinakis, age 26 (No.95 singles, No.15 doubles)
Max Purcell, age 24 (No.221 singles, No.33 doubles)
Matt Ebden, age 34 (No.741 singles, No.26 doubles)
CANADA TEAM
Captain: Frank Dancevic (10-6 report as captain)
Felix Auger-Aliassime, age 22 (No.6 singles, No.258 doubles)
Denis Shapovalov, age 23 (No.18 singles, No.75 doubles)
Vasek Pospisil, age 32 (No.100 singles, unranked doubles)
Alexis Galarneau, age 23 (No.204 singles, No.411 doubles)
Gabriel Diallo, age 21 (No.224 singles, No.1826 doubles)
PREVIOUS DAVIS CUP TRIUMPHS
Australia 28 (final in 2003), Canada 0 (crushed finalists 2019)
DAVIS CUP HEAD TO HEAD
Australia 9 Canada 1 (final assembly 2019 quarter-finals, Canada 2 Australia 1)
ROUTE TO THE FINAL
Australia: quarter-final bt Netherlands 2-0, semi-final bt Croatia 2-1
Canada: quarter-final bt Germany 2-1, semi-final bt Italy 2-1
PRIZE MONEY
Winners: $US2,500,000 ($A3.7 million). Runners-up $US1,500,000 ($A2.2 million).
MISCELLANEOUS
*Australia’s males’s staff have matched the achievement of the Australian girls’s Billie Jean King Cup staff, who completed as runners-up to Switzerland in Glasgow earlier this month. It’s the primary time since 1993 that Australian groups have reached the ultimate of each ‘World Cups’ in the identical yr.
*Lleyton Hewitt can captain the successful staff, 19 years since he performed for the winners within the Melbourne victory over Spain.
*Victory would see Australia shut the hole on the US with a twenty ninth title, simply three behind the US-held report of 32.
*Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov received the Junior Davis Cup collectively as under-16s in 2015 and now hope to repeat the triumph as seniors.
