The ITF – International Tennis Federation announced the seeds for the Davis Cup 2019 Finals Draw, which will take place on 14th February 2019 at the Real Casa de Correos in Madrid, Spain.
During 2019, the 18 nations competing the Finals will be:
Argentina,
Australia,
Belgium,
Canada,
Chile,
Colombia,
Croatia,
France,
Germany,
Great Britain,
Italy,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Netherlands,
Russia,
Serbia,
Spain and
USA.
The present seedings are based on the new Davis Cup Nations Ranking which were released on 4th February. The new Ranking system was updated in 2019 to reflect the new format of the competition.
For the finals the 6 seeded nations, which will be drawn into position 1 across Groups A-F, are:
1. France (Nation Ranking 1)
2. Croatia (2)
3. Argentina (3)
4. Belgium (4)
5. Great Britain (5)
6. USA (6)
The remaining nations which are ranked from 7 to 18 in accordance with their Davis Cup Ranking are:
7. Spain (7)
8. Serbia (8)
9. Australia (9)
10. Italy (10)
11. Germany (11)
12. Kazakhstan (12)
13. Canada (14)
14. Japan (17)
15. Colombia (18)
16. Netherlands (19)
17. Russia (21)
18. Chile (22)
According to ITF release, Nations ranked from 7 to 12 will be drawn randomly into Groups A-F taking position 2 in such group. Nations ranked 13 to 18 will be drawn randomly into Groups A-F, taking position 3 in such group.
The 18 nations competing in the 2019 finals were confirmed after the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Qualifiers on 2nd February – Saturday. The 12 nations which lost in the Qualifiers will compete in the Zone Group competition with the Groups allocated according to the new Davis Cup Nations Ranking and the Draw taking place on 6th February – Wednesday.
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