Pedro Cachín and Emil Ruusuvuori will open the Davis Cup series between Finland and Argentina

The Argentine tennis player Pedro Cachín will face the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori tomorrow in the match that will start the Davis Cup series between Argentina and Finland in the city of Espoo, as determined by the draw of the order of play made today for the qualifying round valid for the Qualifiers 2023 of the traditional contest. Cachín, born in Bell Ville, Córdoba, and ranked 88th in the ATP world ranking, will play against Ruusuvuori (43rd) from 12.00 (Argentina time) and televised by TyC Sports.The second point of the best-of-five tie will be encouraged by the Argentine number one, Francisco Cerúndolo (31st), and the local Otto Virtanen (181st), according to the choice of the captains, Guillermo “Mago” Coria and Jarkko Nieminen. The series will continue on Sunday from 8.00 with the doubles that will animate Andrés Molteni (36°) and Máximo González (45°) against the locals Ruusuvuori (43°) and Harri Heliovaara, the world number 10 of the specialty. Then they will close the series the last two games with the number one of each country face to face, that is, Cerúndolo against Ruusuvuori, and then they will complete Cachín against Virtanen, although if the tie is defined before the fifth point could not be played, this is always solved jointly by the captains. Argentina needs a win in the series to advance to the Davis Cup Finals and compete with the best countries in the discipline, something it achieved last year. It is worth mentioning that the winners of the Qualifiers will advance to the group stage of the Finals, stage in which they will join with the champions and runners-up of 2022 (Canada and Australia) and the two guests (Italy and Spain) until completing the 16 nations.

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