The 2023 Davis Cup final begins this Tuesday in Malaga with eight nations; Canada, Italy, Holland, Finland, Great Britain, Czechia, Australia and Serbia by Novak Djokovicthe main icon of the tournament, who will fight to lift the Salad Bowl on Sunday in the final of the Martín Carpena de Malaga.

The most prestigious team competition in the world of tennis arrives in Malaga for the second year in a row with the significant defeat of Spain, who without Carlos Alcaraz or Rafael Nadal This will be the main absence of this edition. This fact allows the name of the recent ATP Finals champion, Novak Djokovic, to attract all the attention during the tournament which takes place at the Martín Carpena pavilion. The Serbian arrives after winning the title this Sunday in Turin, beating Jannik Sinner, leader of the Italian team, number four in the world.

The undisputed world number one, who with the retirement of Roger Federer and the injuries of Rafa Nadal remained the invincible soldier of the old guard, will lead the Serbian team and try to win his second Davis Cup, as he achieved in 2010, but will face other top tennis players like J himselfAnnik Sinner or the Australian Álex de Minaur.

Other big rackets are those of the British Cameron Norrie (18), who will not have veteran Andy Murray in his team due to a shoulder injury that ruled him out at the last minute; the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (29), the transalpine Lorenzo Musetti (27) or Dutch Tallon Griekspoor (23).

Canada defends its title. The quarterfinal matches are as follows: Canada vs. Finland (Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.); Czechia v Australia (Wednesday, 4 p.m.); Italy v Netherlands (Thursday, 10:00 a.m.) and Serbia v Great Britain (Thursday, not before 4:00 p.m.).

IThe first semi-final will take place on Friday 24 at 4:00 p.m. and will pit the winner of Canada-Finland against the winner of Czechia-Australia, while the second will take place on Saturday 25 at 12:00 between Italy. or the Netherlands and Serbia or Great Britain. The eight teams will compete in knockout matches, in which there will be two singles matches and one doubles match to decide their place in the next round.

Since the tournament, now organized by the ITF and not by Gerard Piqué’s company Kosmos, they intend to match, or even surpass the 2022 edition, the first Salad Bowl in Canadian history, which was almost full at the Malaga Sports Palace, reaching 61,916 spectators in totalmore than ten thousand per day on average, almost at full capacity.

The predictions of the tournament organizers are good, commented the president of the tournament himself, Feliciano López. As of Thursday, around 90 percent of tickets had already been sold.. Without Spain in the fray, international tourism would be even more important.