India will play their first Davis Cup home tie since February 2019, against Denmark in a World Group I contest, scheduled for March 4-5 next year.
India travelled to Finland (2021), Croatia (2020) and Kazakhstan (2019, Pakistan tie) for their last three ties. They hosted Italy at home in February 2019 and lost 1-3 in Calcutta.
Denmark have Holger Rune (ranked 103 in singles ATP ranking) who is ranked higher than all the India players. It will be the first tie between the two nations since September 1984 when India won 3-2 at Aarhus. Vijay Amritraj had won the first singles while Ramesh Krishnan wrapped up his two singles to win the tie for the visitors.
The only other time the two teams played each other was in 1927 when Denmark whitewashed a pre-Independence Indian team 5-0 in the quarter final in Copenhagen.
“It is good that after many ties, we have got a home match. The last two ties were tough for us,” India coach Zeeshan Ali said. “Except Ramkumar Ramanathan, who is 190 in the world, we don’t have anyone in the top-200 in singles. We have not had a top-100 player for a long time.
“If we have a full strength team, then we will have a very good chance of beating Denmark in India,” he added.
