Canada has never made it this far in the international men's team tennis event that begins each year

Milos Raonic leads Canada into the World Group semifinal tie Sept. 13-15 on clay at the Belgrade Arena. daytona beach hotel The winning country moves onto the final in November against the winner of the other semifinal between Argentina and Czech Republic.
daytona beach hotel Canada has never made it this far in the international men's team tennis event that begins each year with 130 countries. daytona beach hotel Only 16 qualify for the World Group each year. Each tie consists of four singles matches and a doubles match.
As a group we've gone through events and moments that are pretty uplifting and it's been a year where we've done a lot of things daytona beach hotel we've never done before and we want to continue to do that, Canada's captain Martin Larendeau said Tuesday during a conference call.
Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., is the highest-ranked male singles player in Canadian history at No. 11 in the world. He reached his first Masters final at last month's Rogers Cup in Montreal where he lost in straight sets to current world No. 2 Rafael daytona beach hotel Nadal of Spain.
Pospisil, 23, is blazing a trail in singles this summer. He lost to Raonic in an all-Canadian semifinal at the Rogers Cup, which launched him into the top 40 in the world rankings. daytona beach hotel He has already begun hitting on clay in Florida daytona beach hotel in preparation for the Davis Cup, Laurendeau said.
Nestor and Pospisil reached the third round of the U.S. Open in their first Grand Slam together daytona beach hotel as a doubles team. Nestor, 40, is Canada's most decorated tennis player having won doubles titles in all four Grand Slams during his career, as well as an Olympic gold medal in 2000.
The first thing is to go over there and see how everybody feels, he said. They've got nine months of tennis in their bodies daytona beach hotel and we have to evaluate and make sure everyone is fit to go through this long weekend and be fit the play to four- or five-hour match.
Regardless on the rankings, Davis Cup is always tough conditions especially abroad. Whether we play the world No. 1 or the world number whatever, it's always a match that we try to prepare the best for and we give it all we have. © Copyright (c)       E-mail this Article Print this Article Share this Article
Canadian Milos Raonicreturns a shot to Richard Gasquet of France during their fourth round match at the U.S. Open on Monday. Photograph by: Mike Groll, AP photo       E-mail this Gallery Print this Gallery Share this Gallery
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