Although injury-hit Alex de Minaur has pulled out, Lleyton Hewitt is convinced his in-form Australian side can navigate the Davis Cup Finals' 'group of death'.
Australia will be without its number one singles player Alex de Minaur for its Davis Cup group phase. Lleyton Hewitt has backed his Australian team to come through the Davis Cup "group of death" despite the absence of their top gun., Hewitt's men have been handed a challenging group in Valencia this week with France, hosts Spain and Czechia in their quartet. The top two qualify for the November knock-out stage.
Team: Lleyton Hewitt , Alexei Popyrin, Jordan Thompson, Max Purcell, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Matt Ebden."And I've got so much belief in the five guys sitting up here with me that we're capable of doing that, and they know that. They know how much confidence I have in them as individuals. Australia begin on Tuesday afternoon, local time , against a French team led by two top-25 players, Ugo Humbert and Arthur Fils. It is the third meeting in as many years with Australia winning 2-1 each time.
Hewitt was part of the last Australian team to win the Davis Cup, in 1999 and 2003, but said the long gap, and successive losing finals, has not added to the pressure."You want to put yourself in the position to have a chance of winning it. And for a number of years we were in the wilderness a bit, and didn't have the opportunity to have a chance of trying to hold up the trophy.
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