Yoni Ehrlich: "Every Davis Cup match I have butterflies in my stomach" | Israel today

In preparation for the Davis meeting that will take place this weekend between Israel and the Czech Republic at the Shlomo Group Hall in Tel Aviv as part of House 1 of the Davis Cup.

A press conference was held today (Thursday) in which the order of the games was drawn.

The strong Czech team, which has won the Davis Cup three times in the past (1980, 2012, 2013), is coming to Israel for a very important meeting, when the winner will play in the match to advance to the final tournament of the Davis Cup (16 best in the world) and the loser will compete in a survival match in Group 1.

The meeting will open at 2:00 PM with the match between Israel's number 2 bat Daniel Zuckerman (450 in the world) and the guests' top bat, Yiri Lechka (63), and in the second match the top bat will go up against Idan Leshem (444 in the world) against Thomas Machach (109).

The Czech Davis team, photo: Oren Aharoni

On Saturday, starting at 12:00, it will open with the doubles match, when captain Yoni Ehrlich (202 in the world in doubles) will collaborate with Zuckerman against Zdenek Kolar (156) and Delivor Sabrecina (217), when then the senior rackets will go up there against Lečka and lock the The event, Zuckerman versus Machach.

This is the fifth meeting between the two teams when the balance is 1:3 to the Czech Republic.

The last meeting between the two teams took place in Ostrava in 2018. In which the Czech Republic defeated Israel 1:3.

Erlich said: "We looked at the matchups and this is the best squad we are fielding, the conversation with Yishai Oliel was not easy, I hope the plan will come to fruition and we can get 2 points on the opening day, every time there is a Davis Cup match I have butterflies in my stomach, the doubles is always a point that comes To decide every match, I'm in the best shape I can be right now."

Yoni Ehrlich at the captains meeting,

Zuckerman said: "Every Davis meeting is special in Israel, an experience you don't experience every day. I hope the hall will be full of Israelis and it will help us, I had a very good week of training."

There he added: "I hope we open with a point and that will help me to continue."

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