The first match in 2016-m to year the national team of Ukraine will hold without first racket of the country Alexander Dolgopolov. However, the Austrians are coming to the match without the eighth racket of the world Dominic Thiem, which automatically makes the Ukrainian team the undisputed favorite of the match.
In the match with Austria Ukraine will present the second and the third racket of the country Ilya Marchenko and Sergiy Stakhovsky. Also team captain Michael Filima said the game Artem Smirnov and Denis Molchanov.
Austria in the upcoming Davis Cup tie will present Gerald Meltzer, Dennis Nowak, jürgen Melzer and Philipp Oswald. No representative of visitors is not included in the top 100 of the ATP ranking, Ukraine there are two players.
In case of a victory over Austria’s national team of Ukraine will play in the playoffs of the World group of the Davis Cup and repeat the best result in team history. In 2009, “blue and yellow” was already close to the elite team tennis, but in a persistent match has lost to Belgium (2:3).
