I'm not sure if anyone is from Toronto, but tickets are now on sale for Raonic versus Sampras. Sounds like a fun exhibition event and it's great that Pete is doing it!
World Group Draw 2012 (to be played in Feb 2 weeks after the Australian Open)
Spain hosts Kazakhstan
Austria hosts Russia Canada hosts France
Suisse hosts USA
Czech Republic hosts Italy
Serbia hosts Sweden
Japan hosts Croatia
Germany hosts Argentina
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Good news for tennis fans in Calgary. It appears the city has a good chance of getting the opening round here.
We do. The event has to be indoors in February so it takes the normal Rogers Cup venues out. Tennis Canada says it's looking for an arena that holds about 8000 so that it's noisy. Corral fits all that.
However seeing that it's a big event and with France coming, I have a feeling it'll be in Montreal in one of the smaller QMJHL arenas they have available.
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Vancouver will be hosting the Davis Cup for Canada versus France. I'm disappointed that it's not in Calgary, but Vancouver's close enough I may back the trip out there to check it out.
I'm definitely going to make it out to UBC for this. Would love to see Milos and Vasek live in action. Something tells me this event will need more than just the 5000 or so seats at UBC, but a sold out building will create a great atmosphere.
During Tuesday's official announcement that the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver would host the 2012 Davis Cup World Group tie between Canada and France, Tennis Canada unveiled a pair of provocative posters to promote the event. The Vancouver Sun reports that one featured Canada’s top player, Milos Raonic, with the tag line: "Hey France, I’ve got a 151 m.p.h. serve. Try returning that with a baguette."
Another poster has Canadian player Vasek Pospisil saying, "Hey France, Welcome to Vancouver. My hometown and your worst nightmare."
Tennis Canada’s Gavin Ziv said the arena will seat just over 4,500 and he hopes it will create a "loud and vibrant atmosphere while still remaining intimate. We’ve got to teach the people how it’s done around the world and we should do the same here. We are patriotic. We showed it during the Olympics and we can bring that here. Don’t come in with the mentality of ‘Quiet please.’ You’ve got to cheer for your country and make it hard on the other team."
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Milos Raonic: The 20-year-old jumped from No. 156 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings at the start of the season to No. 31 on 14 November 2011. After compiling a 4-6 match record in 2010, he went 31-19 in his first full season on the ATP World Tour. He became the first Canadian to claim a tour-level title in 16 years, winning San Jose without dropping a set (d. Verdasco), and the following week reached the final in Memphis (l. to Roddick).
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