No, he couldn’t think of another junior-eligible teenager playing in a Davis Cup World Group tie. “In the World Group, it’s very tough to be a teenager and to be named (to a team) and then play. Since then, Shapovalov has won a Wimbledon junior men’s championship and a dead-rubber two-set victory against Chile’s Christian Garin in a World Group playoff tie at Halifax. The victor between Canada and Britain will reach the World Group quarter-finals, while the loser must compete in September’s World Group playoffs to stay in the top level for 2018. Britain won its only previous Davis Cup matchup with Canada, 4-1, on home soil in 1967.

Source: National Post February 02, 2017 23:08 UTC