The Finals, formerly known as World Group, was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2021. It was held on indoor hard courts at three venues in Innsbruck, Austria, Madrid, Spain and Turin, Italy. The 2020 edition was originally scheduled to take place from 23 until 29 November 2020. However, on 26 June 2020, ITF announced that 2020 Finals would take place from 22 until 28 November 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic and be named 2021 Davis Cup Finals. On 18 January 2021, ITF announced that the Finals would be expanded over 11 days, from 25 November to 5 December 2021. The ties were contested in a best-of-three rubbers format and played on one day. There were two singles followed by a doubles. Spain were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round-robin stage. The Russian Tennis Federation won the title, defeating Croatia in the final. Andrey Rublev was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament after going 6–1 in both singles and doubles.
Participating teams 18 nations take part in the Finals. The qualification was as follows: 4 semifinalists of the previous edition 2 wild card teams (announced by ITF on 23 November 2019 as France and Serbia) 12 winners of the qualifying round, in March 2020
Overview H = Host nation, TH = Title holder, 2019F = Finalist from the 2019 tournament, 2019SF = Semi-finalists from the 2019 tournament, WC = Wild card Participating teams (H) (2019F) (WC) (2019SF) (H)RTF (2019SF) (WC) (H, TH)
Seeds The seedings were based on the Davis Cup Ranking of 9 March. Spain, as 2019 champions, are seeded No. 1 and were drawn into Pool A. Canada, as 2019 runners-up, are seeded No. 2 and were drawn into Pool B. The four other highest-ranked nations (France, Croatia, USA and Serbia) are seeded 3–6. The nations in pot 2 were drawn randomly into position 2 and the nations in pot 3 were drawn randomly into position 3.
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Team nominations SR = Singles ranking, DR = Doubles ranking. Rankings are as of 22 November 2021. Player SR DR 34 133 61 336 72 197 135 743 13 Captain: Lleyton Hewitt Player SR DR 118731 139 408 287 476 45 52 Captain: Stefan Koubek Player SR DR 133 154 234 280 264 548 277 159 Captain: Frank Dancevic Player SR DR 111 577 275 415 442 214 10 10 Captain: Alejandro Falla Player SR DR 30 419 242 233 276 449 1 2 Captain: Vedran Martić Player SR DR 82 334 138 232 140 120 143 472 Captain: Jaroslav Navrátil Player SR DR 149 363 291 182 581 166 701 552 823 39 Captain: Raúl Viver Player SR DR 58 131 71 162 86 110 8 400 5 Captain: Sébastien Grosjean Player SR DR 51 68 54 105 85 525 852 14 1196 18 Captain: Michael Kohlmann Player SR DR 12 148 25 59 128 243 3 20 Captain: Leon Smith Player SR DR 40 311 131 900 282 1432 359 566 765 508 Captain: Gábor Köves Player SR DR 10 130 27 139 37 107 59 366 885 25 Captain: Filippo Volandri Player SR DR 36 48 178 444 183 128 534 72 937 28 Captain: Yuri Schukin RTF Player SR DR 2 275 5 74 18 90 29 168 173 646 Captain: Shamil Tarpishchev Player SR DR 1 251 33 205 42 290 68 274 1540 36 Captain: Viktor Troicki Player SR DR 20 196 45 60 88 106 125 312 7 Captain: Sergi Bruguera Player SR DR 93 1449 171 391 511 822 64 184 Captain: Robin Söderling Player SR DR 24 203 26 146 38 161 147 150 4 Captain: Mardy Fish
Format The 18 teams were divided in six round robin groups of three teams each. The six group winners plus the two second-placed teams with the best records based on percentage of matches won (followed by percentage of sets won and then percentage of games won), qualified for the quarterfinals.
Date Round Number of teams 25 November – 28 November Round robin 18 (6 groups of 3 teams) 29 November – 2 December Quarterfinals 8 (6 group winners + 2 best second place) 3 December – 4 December Semifinals 4 5 December Final 2 (automatically qualified for 2022 Davis Cup Finals)
Group stage Qualified for the Knockout stage Eliminated
Overview T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets GroupWinnerRunner-upThirdNationTMSNationTMSNationTMSA RTF 2–0 5–1 11–5 1–1 4–2 9–7 0–2 0–6 4–12B 2–0 5–1 10–5 1–1 4–2 9–4 0–2 0–6 2–12C 2–0 4–2 8–5 1–1 3–3 6–8 0–2 2–4 7–8D 2–0 5–1 11–3 1–1 2–4 6–10 0–2 2–4 6–10E 2–0 4–2 9–5 1–1 3–3 8–8 0–2 2–4 5–9F 2–0 4–2 8–5 1–1 4–2 9–6 0–2 1–5 4–10
Group A Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %1 RTF2–05–111–569%86–6059%21–14–29–756%83–8151%30–20–64–1225%65–9341%
Spain vs. Ecuador
RTF vs. Ecuador
Spain vs. RTF
Group B Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–05–110–567%86–6457%21–14–29–469%66–6052%30–20–62–1214%59–8740%
Canada vs. Sweden
Kazakhstan vs. Sweden
Canada vs. Kazakhstan
Group C Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–04–28–562%64–5653%21–13–36–843%70–7050%30–22–47–847%66–7447%
France vs. Czech Republic
France vs. Great Britain
Great Britain vs. Czech Republic
Group D Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–05–111–379%83–6058%21–12–46–1038%74–8945%30–22–46–1038%79–8748%
Croatia vs. Australia
Australia vs. Hungary
Croatia vs. Hungary
Group E Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–04–29–564%79–6057%21–13–38–850%79–7850%30–22–45–936%56–7642%
United States vs. Italy
Italy vs. Colombia
United States vs. Colombia
Note: Cabal/Farah's retirement victory over Opelka/Sock counted as a 6–0, 6–0 win.
Group F Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–04–28–562%67–6949%21–14–29–660%86–7354%30–21–54–1029%66–7746%
Serbia vs. Austria
Serbia vs. Germany
Germany vs. Austria
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarterfinals Italy vs. Croatia
Great Britain vs. Germany
Serbia vs. Kazakhstan
RTF vs. Sweden
Semifinals Croatia vs. Serbia
RTF vs. Germany
Final RTF vs. Croatia
References
External links Official website