Davis Cup quarter finals this week

The Davis Cup quarter finals are upon us and this week sees the following match ups:

Italy (8) v France (1) at the Valletta Cambiaso ASD in Genova, Italy

Teams include:

Italy

Fabio Fognini 

Paolo Lorenzi

Andreas Seppi 

France 

Lucas Pouille 

Adrian Mannarino 

Pierre-Hugues Herbert 

Spain v Germany at the Plaza de Toros de Valencia in Valencia, Spain

Teams include:

Spain

Rafa Nadal

Pablo Carreno Busta

Roberto Bautista Agut

Germany

Sascha Zverev 

Philipp Kohlschreiber

Jan-Lennard Struff

Kazakhstan v Croatia (4) at the Varazdin Arena in Varazdin, Croatia

Players include:

Kazakhstan

Mikhail Kukushkin

Aleksandr Nedovyesov

Dmitry Popko

Croatia

Marin Cilic

Borna Coric

Viktor Galovic

USA v Belgium (2) at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Players include:

USA

John Isner

Sam Querrey

Jack Sock

Belgium

Ruben Bemelmans

Joris De Loore

Sander Gille

The one top ten player missing from the nominated teams is David Goffin, and the Belgian line up can ill afford to compete against the strong American outfit without his services.

Meanwhile the Monterrey women’s tournament has progressed, with all first round matches complete, and all eight seeds safely through to the second round.

In Charleston, the first round concluded, also with no major surprises, and all seeds intact.

The seeds with byes (plus lucky loser in qualifying - Dayana Yastremska - who replaced Sloane Stephens in the draw) stepped on to the court for the first time to join first round victors.

Second round results:

Caroline Garcia (1) defeated Varvara Lepchenko 6-2 6-3

Daria Kasatkina (3) defeated Christina McHale 6-3 3-6 6-2

Alize Cornet (14) defeated Polona Hercog 6-2 6-3

The other 13 round two matches are currently underway, or scheduled for later today, US time