• Davis.Bautista leaves Davis due to the worsening of his father's health

The Argentine national team will be Spain's rival in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup. The South American team qualified for the crosses as second in Group C and faces will be seen with the Sergi Bruguera box this Friday (not before 6:00 p.m.), the same day on which the three qualifying rounds of the remaining quarter are played -the other, Australia-Canada, is played on Thursday afternoon.

Argentina, together with Russia, surpasses the first phase as the best second in the group. The Russian team, meanwhile, will face Serbia. The other quarterfinal match will face Germany with the winner of Great Britain - Kazakhstan.

The picture led by Gastón Gaudio defeated Chile on Tuesday by a blunt 3-0 (Guido Pella and Diego Schwartzman won the victory in singles and doubles, Leonardo Mayer and Máximo González). The defeat against Germany , in this case with the result invested (0-3), left the albiceleste on the verge of elimination, although other results have facilitated his ticket to the quarterfinals.

Argentina has a single Davis Cup title, the one harvested in 2016 against Croatia in Zagreb. That champion team, which played all the qualifiers as a visitor, survives Leonardo Mayer , the leading specialist in the doubles team.

Positive balance

The absence of Roberto Bautista will force Spain to make a change in the individual. Everything indicates that Pablo Carreño , who trained on the morning of this Friday with Rafael Nadal in the tracks attached to the Magic Box, will occupy the post of Castellón.

The atmosphere in the stands will be another factor that highlights this tie. The Argentine fan, always noisy, has been the hobby with more presence (behind the Spanish) in this new World Cup for the first time in history that is being held in the same week.

Spain and Argentina have met four times, always with the victory of the team now led by Sergi Bruguera. The last one meant the fifth Salad Bowl for Spain that won 3-1 at the Olympic Stadium in Seville .

Also memorable was the triumph of the formation that Emilio Sánchez Vicario led at the end of the Falkland Islands Stadium in Mar del Plata in 2008, 3-1.

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