Davis Cup

You know, Eddie, I think you got something there.

Our guest is Gardner Malloy, who has been national doubles champion for four years and was a member of the Davis Cup team for three successive years.

Much more than all that, Gardner Malloy was a skipper of an LST in the amphibious forces in the Mediterranean during the war and is a veteran of five beachhead landings.

As an old and experienced Navy man, as well as one of America's great tennis players, He has a few things to say.

He played 82 last year.

That's the whole of last year, including the tour finals and Davis Cup.

So he's going to go over last year's total.

And people might remember in Paris last year.

He played 82 last year.

That's the whole of last year, including the tour finals and Davis Cup.

So he's going to go over last year's total.

And people might remember in Paris last year.

I felt badly about it because Lendl is such a, he's one of the all-time greats and he loves this country.

But he didn't end up playing Davis Cup for us.

You know, his situation was different.

So I had to make some really tough judgment calls on people like that.

And because he had this lifetime of, he was such an important figure in the sport, post-career, And his injuries abbreviated his career too.

But he went on, as you know, Patrick, he was the president of the Hall of Fame.

And he could have been a Davis Cup captain, wasn't he? He did so many other things that I felt like I could not leave him out.

And that Arthur Ashe obviously had, Arthur was, Arthur, again, you get to the early Open era, he was pretty crucial.

They've had a lot to cheer about, to be fair, in the recent years.

Especially a lot of slam titles had great Davis Cup victories.

But unfortunately for Flavio Caboli, my guy, my Italian, who I had in the top 10 from the start of the year, he is now withdrawn from the Rolex Paris Masters.

and i'm very worried about his um taking part in the tour finals as well obviously he's taking precaution he doesn't want to miss the tour finals and this has to be missed in paris just to give him the best chance of playing there's still part of me that thinks he's going to travel there anyway regardless just see how it goes because it's such a big moment for him he saw i'm really worried of how bad the injury is though because not many people break down like he did on court against berrettini the other day unless you think it's quite serious and i'm i'm praying that he's able to get himself back in fighting fit shape to be able to compete in the tour finals obviously it's not a guarantee that he's going to be in the tour finals, but based upon the number of points he's got, I think if he decides that he's fit enough to play, he'll probably make it because, I mean, I'll just share the graphic which shows the points.

So it's going to be WTA finals into the ATP files.

And then after that Davis cup will happen for the men, which is very exciting this year.

Cause I believe Carlos Alcaraz say he's going to play Italy one last year, beat Spain, neither center or Alcaraz played in the Davis cup last year.

Alcaraz says he's going to play this year.

Had a lot of time off, obviously in the middle of the years, he missed Wimbledon, missed the French open.

And second, the name won't be used in UAFU competitions, where the stadium will go by a neutral name.

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