Juan Martín Del Potro has been practicing since Monday in the Glasgow Arena where this weekend Argentina will play Great Britain in the Davis Cup semifinals.
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The reigning champions will take on Argentina in an eagerly-awaited semi-final in Glasgow this weekend, with the winners advancing to play France or Croatia.
“You can have more than one goal during the year”, he said.
“I don’t think at the beginning of the year we expected to win the event but as the year went on and you get closer and closer you want to make the most of the opportunity”.
Murray is expected to partner big brother Jamie, who clinched his second Grand Slam of the season with the men’s doubles title in NY, in the doubles as he looks set to play three times in three days against Argentina.
“So nothing changes. I’ll have a chat with the guys later, the staff as well and make whatever decision we come to, but we’ve got a great team and at the end of the day it is a team event”.
The 29-year-old claimed his second Wimbledon title in July and followed it up by successfully his Olympic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro.
Friday’s singles rubbers pit the respective number one and number two-ranked players from each country against each other, with the number ones doing battle first up on Sunday. There’s a lot of talk about it being a hard decision on who to play, but the good thing is we’ve got a whole weekend, there’s different permutations, you’ve got change around in the team. “It’s been the best year of my career so far and hopefully I can keep it going”.
Smith is still to decide on his second singles player with his squad in such fine form.
Yet Edmund is now battling for a place with Dan Evans, ranked two places above him at 53 in the world and who also made significant progress at Flushing Meadow, earning a match point against Stan Wawrinka, who was to thrash Djokovic in the final.
Del Potro hasn’t played a singles rubber in the Davis Cup for four years following three wrist operations that nearly saw him quit the game. Both Federico Delbonis (world no.41) and Guido Pella (no.49) have… Though Murray doesn’t know whether they will meet on Friday or Sunday, he was anticipating a stern test.
“I think I’ve found my way in the game again”, the Argentine said. We approach this tie with humility and excitement hoping to qualify for the final”, said Delpo, who Speaking in detail about Andy Murray added: “He is probably the smartest player.
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Argentina are looking to win their first Davis Cup having suffered three defeats in the past ten years to Russian Federation in 2006 and to Spain in 2008 and 2011.
