The Davis Cup faces its decisive phase: this will be the draw and the four possible rivals of Spain

Spain is looking for its seventh ‘salad bowl’ this year, a complicated mission for which you will not be able to allow mistakes. The champion and host Italy, with Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Musetti and Flavio Cobolli as star players, starts as a great favorite and rival to avoid in the quarterfinal draw which is celebrated this Tuesday.

The team led by David Ferrer starts as second seed, so it is guaranteed to avoid the transalpinesfirst, in the quarterfinals. With Germany (3) and Czechia (4) completing the list of pre-qualifiers, the four rivals with whom Spain can be paired are Austria, Canada, Great Britain and South Korea.

The 0-4 in Chile last weekend invites optimism, especially if we take into account that ahead of the event, from November 24 to 29 in Bologna, it is expected to have the presence of two luxury reinforcements such as Carlos Alcaraz and Marcel Granollersabsent in Chilean lands.

He brilliant debut of Rafa Jódar and Dani Méridatwo of the great revelations of the season, should allow Spain to have options against any rival.

Among the possible rivals for the quarterfinals, the most affordable seems to be South Koreawhich beat India 3-1 in a series in which they only missed the doubles match despite the fact that their most outstanding players, Soonwoo Kwon (157) and Hyeon Chung (549), are far from the top 100.

A duel against Great Britain would entail a little more difficultywhich defeated Ecuador in London (4-0). He already got the series back on track on Saturday with a B team and the victories of Toby Samuel and Arthur Fery, and on Sunday, in the doubles, he secured the goal with the victory of Henry Patten and Neal Skupski in the doubles. They should be joined in November by the always tough Cameron Norrie.

Finally, Canada would be the most difficult rivalalthough it depends excessively on the form of its two franchise players, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov.

After the quarter-finals, the final table will be completed with the semi-final pairings.