09/19/2021 15:09
Clarín.com
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Updated 9/19/2021 3:09 PM
"This is the last series that I am going to be. One stage was finished, I had a spectacular time, it was to feel again an adrenaline that I had not had for 15 years". Thus, without lapses, Gastón Gaudio closed his cycle as captain of the Argentine Davis Cup team. El Gato, champion at Roland Garros 2004, seems to be focused on his intention to win the elections in Independiente as a catalyst for the unity front that seeks to run the Moyano from the Avellaneda club and decided that the long-suffering series against Belarus, which ended in a smile and qualification to be one step away from the 2022 Finals, the last one leading the Argentine team.
Who will be the replacement for Gaudio? For now, the Argentine Tennis Association has nothing decided. But Guillermo Coria itches in point in the consideration of the leadership. We will have to wait to know the name, since there is a lot of time ahead. In fact, the national team must wait until November to find out who will be their rival in the March playoffs to go for a place in the elite of the famous Salad Bowl tournament, now remodeled since Gerard Piqué and his company Kosmos took over the organization.
"I have not talked about it with anyone yet, not even with Gustavo (Marcaccio, the sub-captain), with whom we decide everything together. We will do it once this series is over. And I think the first to know what will happen will be the players, they deserve it, "Gaudio had assured before the series against Belarus began.
"The truth is that I am very complicated of time because I am with other things in the head, with a lot of other commitments. And I take this job very seriously. The captaincy is a very big responsibility and I feel that if I continue, he wants to to be able to dedicate myself completely to this, not to have other tasks. I want to see if I can organize myself to be one hundred percent dedicated to the team; if not, I will not do it, "he had advanced, explaining the reasons for the doubts about whether to continue.
Gaudio played his first series as captain in September 2018, when Argentina beat Colombia 4-0 in San Juan in the World Group playoffs.
In that clash, the first after the departure of Daniel Orsanic, the Cat shared the captaincy with Guillermo Coria and Guillermo Cañas.
For the following season that triumvirate was dissolved and the 2004 Roland Garros champion was left alone at the helm of the team, which played in the 2019 Finals in Madrid, the first of the new format.
In the Spanish capital, they beat Chile 3-0 and fell by the same result against Germany, in the round robin, and then lost 2-1 against Spain in the quarterfinals.
"Up to here, it was a very good experience, I liked it. I had very nice moments and the relationship with the boys was spectacular. Although it is true that they were complicated years, nothing to do with what I expected when I assumed. They were atypical years due to the pandemic and there were a lot of situations that were not normal, such as canceled series or the fact of not being able to travel to the tournaments to accompany the players. Although in general, it was all very positive, "Gaudio had slipped by way of balance.
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