Tennis Canda announced Sunday that Félix Auger-Aliassime (Montreal, QC), Gabriel Diallo (Montreal, QC), Liam Draxl (Newmarket, On), Alexis Galarneau (Laval, QC) and Cleeve Harper (Calgary, AB) will compose the Canadian team for the Davis group I meeting in Halifax, in New The Canadian team will be measured in Israel on September 12 and 13 at the Scotiabank Center.
“The path to the finals of the 2026 Davis Cup is starting now, and we will have a very solid team on the East Coast which hopes to carve out a place for the qualifications next February,” said the team captain, Frank Dancevic. Even if we have an excellent team on paper, we cannot take this meeting lightly, because anything can happen to the Davis Cup. We look forward to playing in front of Halifax lovers and we are ready to give the best of ourselves in front of an enthusiastic Canadian audience. »»
AGER-AGER-Aliassime will represent Canada at the Davis Cup for the eighth time. He has a 13 wins and 4 defeats sheet, which includes a sequence of 12 consecutive gains in this prestigious competition. The 28th world started the season by winning the titles in Adelaide and Montpellier. He also reached the final in Dubai, bowing to the 4th seeded, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. Auger-Aliassime is one of the eight players to have won more than one ATP title in 2025.
Diallo will evolve for the ninth time in the Canadian team. In 2025, the 23-year-old has skyrocketed in the ATP ranking by climbing 36th thanks to a participation in the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 in Madrid, and the conquest of his first title in Bois-le-Duc. Diallo has five victories and six defeats at the Davis Cup, including three victories in Montreal. Montrealer is the Canadian who obtained the best result at the omnium National Bank presented by Rogers (OBN) in Toronto by reaching the third round last week.
Draxl, 23, is chosen for the third time in the team and he played his first match of the Davis Cup in February in the first qualifying round against Hungary. He won the double match in two rounds alongside Vasek Pospisil (Vernon, BC), who was playing his last Davis Cup meeting. Draxl is the leader of the ATP Challenger circuit for the number of finals (7), winning that of the Winnipeg National Bank Challenger in July. Last week, he took part in his first match in a main Toronto ATP’s main draw, and rose to 113rd in the world.
Galarneau will be part of the Canadian Davis Cup team for the tenth time. His file includes five victories and seven defeats. The 26 -year -old Lavallois has just won his first match in the main draw of an ATP tournament. To do this, he eliminated French Arthur Rinderknech, 64th in the world, in the first round of the Toronto OBN. Galarneau recently returned to the Top 200 after missing several months this season due to an injury. Today he occupies the 193rd level of the ATP ranking.
Harper, 24, completes the team. He is the best Canadian male player under his 92nd world rank. This year, he collected three titles in this specialty, including two with his Draxl teammate. The tandem also distinguished itself last week by reaching the knockout stages of the OBN. Harper will represent Canada for the second time, but has not yet been sent to the fray.
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The meeting has two simple games on Friday September 12, from 4 p.m. (HAA). On Saturday September 13, the double match and two other simple games will be presented from 1 p.m.
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