I MADE THE FIRST Tennis World Cup draw EVER! VOTE NOW! tournament includes the best 2 men & women players only?
It'd be like each country has a team consisting on their top players ONLY 1 man and 1 woman (the best ranked players of the country in ATP and WTA) just playing singles, and in case of a tie, a mixed doubles match would be played, again with these 2 players per team. if you didnt get me, here's an example: Great Britain vs Belgium: Murray beats Rochus, and then Clijsters beats Baltacha. So, there'd be a mixed doubles match like this: Murray and Baltacha vs Clijsters and Rochus.
Here's how the thing is: you guys vote each week for the teams that get through each round. The teams with the most votes on each tie are going to be OFICCIALY in the next round. Voting for the bew round start every Saturday night, with voting ending on Wednesdays, along with a post of the results.
Oh, and just so you know, I'll randomly (according to players H2H) pick a surface for the tie. For example, if the players met like 2 times at hard court, then the tie will be on hard.
Here's the draw, each team is seeded according to their best ranked players:
(1) SERBIA (Djokovic and Jankovic)
PARAGUAY (Delgado and de Los Rios)
ITALIA (Starace and Schiavone)
(16) LATVIA (Gulbis and Sevastova)
(9) SWITZERLAND (Federer and Bacsinszky)
TAIPEI (Lu and Chan)
UZBEKISTAN (Istomin and Amanmuradova)
(8) GERMANY (Kohlschreiber and Petkovic)
(5) SPAIN (Nadal and Martinez Sanchez)
COLOMBIA (Giraldo and Duque Marino)
KAZAKHSTAN (Korolev and Shvedova)
(12) UKRANIA (Dolgopolov Jr. and A. Bondarenko)
(13) AUSTRIA (Melzer and Bammer)
SWEDEN (Soderling and Arvidsson)
SLOVENIA (Zelmja and Zec Peskiric (who?))
(4) FRANCE (Tsonga and Bartoli)
(3) USA (Roddick and Serena)
NETHERLANDS (De Bakker and Krajicek)
ISRAEL (Sela and Peer)
(14) POLAND (Kubot and A. Radwanska)
(11) ARGENTINA (del Potro and Dulko)
SLOVAKIA (Lacko and Hantuchova)
INDIA (Devvarman and Mirza)
(6) CZECH REPUBLIC (Berdych and Safarova)
(7) AUSTRALIA (Hewitt and Stosur)
SOUTH AFRICA (Anderson and Scheepers)
CROATIA (Cilic and Martic)
(10) ROMANIA (Hanescu and Dulgheru)
(15) BELGIUM (O. Rochus and Clijsters)
GREAT BRITAIN (Murray and Baltacha)
JAPAN (Soeda and Morita)
(2) RUSSIA (Davydenko and Dementieva)
So, now that you gave a look to the draw, it's time to start the tournament: here are the ties:
Give a result to each tie (e.g. 2-0 or 2-1)
Serbia vs Paraguay - On hard court
Italia vs Latvia - On clay
Switzerland vs Taipei - On grass
Uzbekistan vs Germany - On hard
Spain vs Colombia - on grass
Kazakhstan vs Ukrania - On clay
Austria vs Sweden - On hard
Slovenia vs France - No H2H between players here, so I say carpet :S
USA vs Netherlands - On hard
Israel vs Poland - On clay
Argentina vs Slovakia - On hard
India vs Czech Republic - On hard
Australia vs South Africa - On hard
Croatia vs Romania - On clay
Belgium vs Great Britain (DEFINITELY "THE" MATCH) - On hard
Japan vs Russia - No records on H2H, so I say grass :)
Remember guys, you choose who wins :)
Oh, and btw give this question a star so that more people can find it and vote
Last day for voting is on Wednesday, remember!!
:p you guys were right. date krumm is japan's no.1, either way I dont think it makes any difference....