Australia has gained its final three Davis Cup dwelling ties and captain Lleyton Hewitt has revealed his crew is thrilled to compete on dwelling soil once more once they host Belgium in Sydney in September.
Sydney, NSW, Australia, 18 July 2025 | Matt Trollope
It’s been three years since Australia final hosted a Davis Cup tie, one thing the green-and-gold squad is worked up to expertise once more in September.
The Australian crew will tackle Belgium at Sydney’s Ken Rosewall Enviornment on 13-14 September, vying for a spot within the Remaining 8 of the competitors, a stage set for November in Bologna, Italy.
If historical past is something to go by, the Sydney setting bodes effectively for the Australian crew’s prospects.
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Australia has gained six of its previous seven dwelling ties, together with the final three in a row; towards Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2019 and Brazil in 2020 – each at The Drive in Adelaide – and towards Hungary in 2022, a tie additionally staged at Ken Rosewall Enviornment.
Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt stated it had been a very long time coming to compete on dwelling soil, and that his costs had been leaping on the alternative.
“The blokes love taking part in in that stadium,” stated Hewitt, who will title the Australian crew line-up in mid August, 4 weeks forward of the tie.
“I do know Alex de Minaur, it’s his favorite court docket on the earth. So for him to get the chance and are available again and play at dwelling once more, we’re actually trying ahead to it.
“A few of our guys have had their largest matches there, and their largest wins.
“It’s nonetheless a really large problem, although, towards Belgium – we definitely gained’t be taking something as a right.”
De Minaur, Australia’s top-ranked singles participant at world No.12, has thrived on that very court docket, successful the Sydney Worldwide in 2019 a 12 months after reaching the ultimate.
He additionally scored notable wins on the similar venue towards top-10 star Matteo Berrettini on the 2022 ATP Cup, and the legendary Rafael Nadal on the 2023 United Cup.
And he went 2-0 towards Hungary in that 2022 Davis Cup conflict, beating Zsombor Piros and Marton Fucsovics in straight units to arrange Thanasi Kokkinakis, who accomplished a 3-2 win for Australia by beating Piros within the remaining rubber.
That win propelled Australia into the group levels of that 12 months’s Davis Cup finals, the place the crew went 2-1 in Hamburg to cement its place within the eight-team knockout stage in Malaga. A type of two wins was a 3-0 whitewash of Belgium.
Competing within the Remaining 8, Australia finally reached the ultimate in 2022, and once more in 2023, earlier than a semifinal end in 2024.
It’s a stage the crew will hope to return to for a fourth straight 12 months once they face Belgium once more.
“We’ll be doing completely every little thing we’d like in our preparation,” Hewitt stated.
“It’s straight after the US Open as effectively, however to get the chance to play a house tie, the boys are going to be actually pumped.”
Tickets to the Australia v Belgium Davis Cup tie at the moment are on sale by way of Ticketmaster.
