[Zirconek]

Croatia
11 April - 13 April 2008
Day 1: tbc
Day 2: tbc
Day 3: tbc
Surface: Hard (RuKortHard) - Indoors
Ball Type: Head ATP

http://www.daviscup.com/ties/tie.asp?tie=100010164

Croatia
Players have yet to be
assigned to this squad.

Italy
Players have yet to be
assigned to this squad.

Croatia leads head-to-head 1-0

last meeting:
2001, WG qualifications, Italy 2-3 Croatia (Rome, Italy)

 

[Zirconek]

Karlovic to play for Croatia with Cilic and Ancic. Ljubicic still not confirmed

http://www2.uol.com.br/tenisbrasil/davis/ultnot/ult500u2474.htm (in Portuguese, sorry, couldn't find the info in English)

 

[Blue Heart24]

Ljubicic retired from Davis Cup over a year ago (February 2007 in Germany).

 

[Deathless Mortal]

It should be Ivo, Marin, Mario and Lovro

 

[Zirconek]

Croatia
Ivo Karlovic
Marin Cilic
Mario Ancic
Roko Karanusic
Captain: Goran Prpic

Italy
tbc

 

[Blue Heart24]

I wonder if our bastard captain will put Ivo to play.:lol:

He really should,as he's our #1 now.

 

[Zirconek]

ITALY
Potito Starace
Andreas Seppi
Filippo Volandri
Simone Bolelli
Captain: Corrado Barazzutti

 

[Zirconek]

great tie :yeah:

 

[NyGeL]

location?

Cilic - Ancic for singles?

 

[Deathless Mortal]

They'll play in Dubrovnik.

A bit stupid Zovko is not playing since Roko is not going to get a chance to play anyway.

I expect Seppi and Bolelli to play singles for Italy.

 

[posteni]

Roko is doing good job at St.Brieuc challenger these days, looks like he's in form at the moment so I guess he is logical solution for a 4th player. You never know who could get a chance.

 

[tennismaster882001]

Hopefully Mario and Marin play singles!
It would be cool though to see Karlovic play, maybe first match instead of Marin!
Even though he's Croatian number one, he still can lose against anyone on his bad day! I just don't think he's very relyable!

 

[GlennMirnyi]

What's Volandri doing out there? :lol:

Good luck Croatia.

 

[Deathless Mortal]

Roko is doing good job at St.Brieuc challenger these days, looks like he's in form at the moment so I guess he is logical solution for a 4th player. You never know who could get a chance.

St.Brieuc is on clay, but anyway, I agree Roko is in good form but he's our 4th player and not a doubles player, so he surely won't get a chance to play, and Zovko would be great partnering Ivo in doubles. I'm pretty sure they'd easily win against whoever plays for Italy.

 

[Deathless Mortal]

Hopefully Mario and Marin play singles!
It would be cool though to see Karlovic play, maybe first match instead of Marin!
Even though he's Croatian number one, he still can lose against anyone on his bad day! I just don't think he's very relyable!

I believe Ivo will still play instead of Marin. Ivo has more experience and Marin is sill less reliable than Ivo IMO.
First day I expect to see Ivo-Bolelli and Mario-Seppi. Great matches. Ivo-Bolelli a possible 5setter, Simone can really play good. Mario-Seppi could also be a tough match but I guess Mario should win. Can't wait

 

[GlennMirnyi]

Bolelli can't return... it's a good match-up for any Croatian.

 

[Deathless Mortal]

Hope you're right

I just realized I won't be able to see any of Friday's matches because I'm in school for the whole afternoon. Back home at 7pm

 

[whist]

Anything but a 3:0 victory (I`m not counting "dead" matches) would surprise me, but I really am not that interested in DC wright now, just hope to see Mario healthy and playing every major event. With a great Wimbledon tourney (semifinal with a decent draw), he can still put a great shot at making the Masters Cup come the end of the year. If anyone deserves it, it`s him. I want even say good luck to our team because I really think they don`t need it at the moment. It`s Italy indoors

 

[posteni]

Yesterday I red on croatian TV TXT that Roko is injured again, so Ivan Cerović takes his place as no.4 . It's quite a surprise to me, because - as somebody said before - Zovko/karlović making a quite good couple, especially on hard indoors. Looks like Prpić is so confident in first two players and sees no need to strenghten his doubles position. If Mario - the obvious no.1 now- is ready and healthy, I believe Prpić's right.

 

[Deathless Mortal]

Anything but a 3:0 victory (I`m not counting "dead" matches) would surprise me, but I really am not that interested in DC wright now, just hope to see Mario healthy and playing every major event. With a great Wimbledon tourney (semifinal with a decent draw), he can still put a great shot at making the Masters Cup come the end of the year. If anyone deserves it, it`s him. I want even say good luck to our team because I really think they don`t need it at the moment. It`s Italy indoors

Seppi can surely play indoors. I don't think it will be 3-0

Yesterday I red on croatian TV TXT that Roko is injured again, so Ivan Cerović takes his place as no.4 . It's quite a surprise to me, because - as somebody said before - Zovko/karlović making a quite good couple, especially on hard indoors. Looks like Prpić is so confident in first two players and sees no need to strenghten his doubles position. If Mario - the obvious no.1 now- is ready and healthy, I believe Prpić's right.

I said that. This way I really don't know who'll play doubles. Ancic/Cilic maybe but I don't trust Cilic in doubles. I don't know how would it end up if Ancic/Karlovic would play because Ivo was mad at Ivan and Mario because they didn't want to share the money. Cerovic won't get a chance so it's really stupid Zovko is not invited.