The All India Tennis Affiliation (AITA) on Monday introduced the six-member Indian group for the Davis Cup 2023 World Group II tie in opposition to Morocco scheduled from September 16 to 17 in Lucknow.  As per Olympics.com, veteran participant Rohan Bopanna, and Sumit Nagal, India’s high males’s singles participant at world quantity 179 in ATP Rankings might be headlining the group. Rohan, the world quantity 9 participant in doubles has been in nice type this 12 months, having clinched the Qatar Open and Indian Wells Masters together with his doubles accomplice Matthew Ebden. This might be his ultimate look on the Davis Cup, Rohan Bopanna had introduced final month. Nagal, who has had a tough time on account of accidents within the final couple of years, has obtained an uptick in his rating after clinching ATP Challenger titles in Rome and Tampere within the ongoing season.

Sasikumar Mukund (world No. 345), Digvijay Pratap Singh (world No. 535), Yuki Bhambri (world No. 944) and Ramkumar Ramanathan (world No. 573) are the opposite gamers included within the squad in opposition to Morocco.

Former participant Rohit Rajpal will proceed because the non-playing skipper for the group and Zeeshan Ali would be the coach.

India had earlier misplaced to Denmark by 3-2 of their World Group 1 Playoffs again in February this 12 months and dropped to the Group II stage for the primary time because the new format was applied in 2019.

There is just one change within the group from the squad which performed in opposition to Denmark. Digvijay Pratap Singh has changed Prajnesh Gunneswaran.

Moreover, AITA has additionally named 5 extra gamers, Saketh Myneni, Manas Dhamne, Manish Sureshkumar, Karan Singh and Yuvan Nandal, who will accompany the squad and supply them with some apply matches for preparation.

A complete of 24 groups play in World Group II ties. The 12 winners will progress to World Group I playoffs whereas dropping groups will drop to World Group II playoffs.

A Davis Cup tie has 5 matches, out of which 4 are singles and one is doubles. The group which manages to win a minimum of three wins the tie.

The Indian tennis group’s greatest performances on the match got here in 1966, 1974 and 1987, ending runners-up.