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Originally Posted by Matty81
Nice work frank. If pospisil is ok to go tomorrow can he sub in to either singles match?
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yup. Canada have named 4 players. Dancevic, Polansky, Pospisil and Nestor. Had to be done before Match 1.
Dancevic is Singles 1: He can only play singles in matches 2 and 4
Polansky is Singles 2: He can only play singles in matches 1 and 5.
Any of the 4 guys can play doubles and either Pospisil or Nestor can replace the players in singles.
So even though you see Raonic and Shamasdin (and anyone else) there, they cannot play. You can't suddenly declare that Raonic is ok and desperately throw him in on Sunday it's too late.
speaking of which, I believe Laurendeau made a mistake here or that he listened to Pospisil. If Pospisil can only play doubles and not singles (and probably can't even play doubles) then they should have selected Shamasdin to save the singles guys from having to play 3 times. Canada is essentially playing this tie with 3 men (one of whom can't play singles)
So really 2 and a half men!
Now that might still be enough to beat Japan cause they're crap.