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Serbia and Australia to interchange suspended Russia in Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup


The Russian team celebrate with the Davis Cup trophy
The Russian crew, led by world primary Daniil Medvedev, beat Croatia to carry the Davis Cup in November

Serbia will change Russia within the Davis Cup and Australia will change them within the Billie Jean King Cup, governing physique the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed.

Russia and Belarus have been suspended from worldwide crew competitors following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Serbia and Australia are the very best ranked sides among the many 2021 shedding semi-finalists from every competitors.

Slovakia and Belgium are additionally by to the Billie Jean King Cup finals.

Slovakia had been as a result of play Australia in subsequent month’s qualifiers for the ladies’s crew occasion however will obtain a bye, whereas Belgium obtain a walkover as they had been as a result of play Belarus.

The three sides will likely be joined by an as but unnamed host, final 12 months’s runner-up Switzerland and the remaining seven winners of April’s qualifiers in November’s finals.

Within the males’s Davis Cup, a wild card for the finals beforehand awarded to Serbia will likely be handed to one of many 12 nations knocked out within the qualifiers earlier this month.

The 12 successful groups from the qualifiers, 2021 finalists Croatia and wild card Britain are the opposite confirmed sides for the finals, which is able to see 16 nations competing in 4 teams throughout 4 cities in September.

The highest eight groups will advance to the knockout levels, which is able to function the season-ending occasion on the lads’s tennis calendar in a fifth host metropolis on the finish of November.

Russia received the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup in 2021, changing into simply the fourth nation to win each competitions in the identical 12 months.

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