Davis Cup: A teenager gave his country triumph and classified him to the qualifiers for the first time in his history

The Davis Cup He has left a new story in the annals of the competition. In the city of Plovdiv, Bulgariathe local team won 3-2 against Finland and He was classified for the first time in his history to Qualifiers. But the color data lies in the fact that the figure of the east of Europe was nothing more or nothing less than Alexander Vasilevan 18 -year -old teenager who comes from being runner -up in the US Open.

For this series, the Bulgarians did not have their three main rackets: Grigor Dimitrov, Dimitar Kuzmanov and Iliyan Radulov. That is why, of the five summoned, four are born in the 2000s. In front of that panorama, the Finland of Otto Virtanen, Emil Ruusuvuori and Harri Heliovaara who was semifinalist in 2023, left as the main candidate.

However, Bulgaria gave the great batacazo with his youth. Of the five points of the series, two were won by Alexander Vasilev, N ° 2 of the world at the Junior level. Both victories were before two tennis players, better ranking and who knew how to be Top 100 as Virtanen and Ruusuvuori. The striking is also that the youthful 2007 category took the two duels in corrido sets: 6-3 / 7-5 and 7-6 (5) and 6-4 respectively.

In this definition he also debuted with his country Ivan Ivanov, only 16 years old and that is No. 1 of the Junior world, in addition to being the current champion of the US Open. However, his presentation was not expected and lost 6-2 and 6-2 against Emiil Ruusuvuori. And as for the doubles, a key point of the series, it remained in the hands of Bulgaria thanks to Petr Nesterov and Alexander Donski.

This victory will allow Bulgaria to play, for the first time in its history, the Qualifiers of the Davis Cup in 2026. Located in position No. 36 of the ranking, the European Southeast Nation oscillated between Europe 1, 2 and 3 group between the 80 ‘and the present, having as a better result the semifinals of the old Europe/Africa area, leaving only two victories of the classification to the World Group.