Davis Cup teams have been announced, and all the big guns are bringing it except for Argentina, who have left JMDP off the team to let him focus on his singles. Big mistake. The Dutch demand respect, yo. You know what happened the last time the Dutch were disrespected?
Yeah, I don't remember either. Ah well.
WORLD GROUP FIRST ROUND
ARGENTINA v NETHERLANDS
Venue: Estadio Parque Roca, Buenos Aires (clay – outdoors)
Argentina
David Nalbandian
Juan Monaco
Juan Ignacio Chela
Lucas Arnold
Captain: Tito Vazquez
Netherlands
Jesse Huta Galung
Thiemo de Bakker
Matwe Middelkoop
Rogier Wassen
Captain: Jan Siemerink
CZECH REPUBLIC v FRANCE
Venue: CEZ Arena, Ostrava (carpet - indoors)
Czech Republic
Tomas Berdych
Radek Stepanek
Jan Hernych
Lukas Dlouhy
Captain: Jaroslav Navratil
France
Gilles Simon
Gael Monfils
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Richard Gasquet
Captain: Guy Forget
USA v SWITZERLAND
Venue: Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex Arena, Birmingham, AL (hard – indoors)
USA
Andy Roddick
James Blake
Bob Bryan
Mike Bryan
Captain: Patrick McEnroe
Switzerland
Stanislas Wawrinka
Stephane Bohli
Marco Chiudinelli
Yves Allegro
Captain: Severin Luthi
CROATIA v CHILE
Venue: Visenamjenska Sportska Dvorana “Zatika”, Porec (hard – indoors)
Croatia
Marin Cilic
Ivo Karlovic
Mario Ancic
Roko Karanusic
Captain: Goran Prpic
Chile
Fernando Gonzalez
Nicolas Massu
Paul Capdeville
Guillermo Hormazabal
Captain: Hans Gildemeister
SWEDEN v ISRAEL
Venue: The Baltic Hall, Malmo (carpet – indoors)
Sweden
Robert Lindstedt
Simon Aspelin
Bjorn Rehnquist
Daniel Berta
Captain: Mats Wilander
Israel
Dudi Sela
Harel Levy
Andy Ram
Noam Okun
Captain: Eyal Ran
ROMANIA v RUSSIA
Venue: Sala Transilvania, Sibiu (carpet – indoors)
Romania
Victor Hanescu
Adrian Cruciat
Victor Crivoi
Horia Vlad Tecau
Captain: Andrei Pavel
Russia
Marat Safin
Dmitry Tursunov
Mikhail Youzhny
Teimuraz Gabashvili
Captain: Shamil Tarpischev
GERMANY v AUSTRIA
Venue: Olympia Eissport Zentrum, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (hard – indoors)
Germany
Rainer Schuettler
Nicolas Kiefer
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Petzschner
Captain: Patrik Kuhnen
Austria
Jurgen Melzer
Alexander Peya
Stefan Koubek
Julian Knowle
Captain: Gilbert Schaller
SPAIN v SERBIA
Venue: Parque Tematico Tierra Mitica, Benidorm (clay – outdoors)
Spain
Rafael Nadal
David Ferrer
Tommy Robredo
Feliciano Lopez
Captain: Albert Costa
Serbia
Novak Djokovic
Viktor Troicki
Janko Tipsarevic
Nenad Zimonjic
Captain: Bogdan Obradovic
