{"id":17834,"date":"2022-08-16T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2022-08-16T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:59:49","slug":"was-matt-ebden-named-for-2022-davis-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2022\/08\/16\/was-matt-ebden-named-for-2022-davis-cup","title":{"rendered":"WA’s Matt Ebden named for 2022 Davis Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the back of his Wimbledon win, Western Australia’s Matt Ebden will take to the court in Germany next month as he has been named for the 2022 Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals \u2013 Group Stage<\/strong> in Hamburg. Ebden was selected alongside Max Purcell – the other half of Wimbledon men’s doubles champion duo – as well as World No 20 Alex de Minaur and Thanasi Kokkinakis.<\/p>\n

Australia is drawn in Pool C alongside Germany, France and Belgium and will compete at the Am Rothenbaum \u2013 Germany\u2019s largest tennis venue \u2013 from 13-18 September 2022.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s top-ranked male player de Minaur will lead the team in his tenth Davis Cup tie. The 23-year-old won both singles matches in Australia\u2019s Davis Cup Qualifier against Hungary in March and captured his sixth career ATP singles title in Atlanta in August.<\/p>\n

Kokkinakis, 26, who won the Adelaide singles title and doubles titles at the Australian Open and Atlanta this year, will make his sixth Davis Cup appearance.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon doubles champions Ebden and Purcell, the first all-Aussie winners at the All England Club since former Davis Cup champions Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in 2000, are strong additions to the team.<\/p>\n

Ebden made his first Australian Davis Cup appearance in 2012 and returns to the side for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n

Purcell will make his Davis Cup debut in Hamburg, although wearing the green and gold won\u2019t be too unfamiliar for the 24-year-old who represented Australia at the ATP Cup in January and in singles and doubles at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.<\/p>\n

Alexei Popyrin<\/strong> and Jason Kubler<\/strong>, ranked 76 and 118 respectively, will also travel to Germany in the six man squad.<\/p>\n

Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt<\/strong> said the team will be focused on the job at hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fought through a really tough qualifying match back in March against Hungary which has now given us this opportunity to build on and the boys understand what\u2019s at stake. I look forward to Alex leading the team in Hamburg,\u201d Hewitt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Group Stage is always extra tough but our goal is to certainly qualify for the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been great to have Nick [Kyrgios] in the team but unfortunately he was unavailable for this tie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals \u2013 Group Stage (13-18 September 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Australian Davis Cup team schedule \u2013 Hamburg, Germany <\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia vs Belgium<\/strong> \u2013 Tuesday 13 September 2pm CEST<\/p>\n

Australia vs France<\/strong> \u2013 Thursday 15 September 2pm CEST<\/p>\n

Australia vs Germany<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday 18 September 2pm CEST<\/p>\n

The Group Stage will take place across four cities \u2013 Bologna, Glasgow, Valencia and Hamburg.<\/p>\n

The Finals will feature 16 teams. The 12 winners in the Davis Cup by Rakuten Qualifiers \u2013\u00a0Argentina, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and USA \u2013<\/strong> join Croatia (2021 runner up), Serbia (losing 2021 semifinalist) and the two wildcards, Canada and Great Britain.<\/p>\n

The 16 teams will compete in four round-robin groups of four teams. The top two teams in each group will advance to the knock-out stage of the Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals in Malaga from 22-27 November where the Davis Cup champions will be crowned.<\/p>\n

Australia defeated Hungary 3-2 in the Davis Cup Qualifiers at Ken Rosewall Arena, Sydney in March to advance to the Group Stage.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals visit https:\/\/www.daviscupfinals.com\/venues\/hamburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the back of his Wimbledon win, Western Australia’s Matt Ebden will take to the court in Germany next month as he has been named for the 2022 Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals \u2013 Group Stage in Hamburg. Ebden was selected alongside Max Purcell – the other half of Wimbledon men’s doubles champion duo – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6328,"featured_media":17835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}