{"id":58296,"date":"2026-08-27T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/58296\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:35:10","slug":"de-minaur-to-lead-australia-against-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/58296\/","title":{"rendered":"De Minaur to lead Australia against Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arabic version: <a href=\"https:\/\/ozarab.media\/?p=726812\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u062f\u064a \u0645\u064a\u0646\u0648\u0631 \u064a\u0642\u0648\u062f \u0623\u0633\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0623\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u0648\u0644\u0646\u062f\u0627<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-08-27\/de-minaur-to-lead-davis-cup-team-against-poland\/107082442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a>, Alex de Minaur will lead Australia in its Davis Cup World Group tie against Poland at Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane on September 19 and 20. The tie comes days after de Minaur\u2019s US Open run at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is ranked number eight in the Davis Cup and has won the competition 28 times. The team must defeat Poland to advance to the Davis Cup qualifiers next year. The remainder of Australia\u2019s team will be named soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing quite like representing the green and gold and to do it at home makes it even more special,\u201d de Minaur said in a Tennis Australia statement. \u201cWe know what\u2019s at stake against Poland and we will be going out there with one goal \u2013 to get the win and put ourselves back into the qualifiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australian coach Lleyton Hewitt said having de Minaur lead the team in Brisbane was \u201ca huge boost\u201d, citing his Davis Cup performances and commitment to representing Australia. Hewitt said Poland would provide a tough tie, while playing at home gave Australia a great opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane meeting will be the second Davis Cup contest between Australia and Poland. Australia won their previous encounter 4-1 in Warsaw in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arabic version: \u062f\u064a \u0645\u064a\u0646\u0648\u0631 \u064a\u0642\u0648\u062f \u0623\u0633\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0623\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u0648\u0644\u0646\u062f\u0627 According to ABC News, Alex de Minaur will lead Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[362,459,4902,907,28],"class_list":["post-58296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alex-de-minaur","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-australia","tag-davis-cup","tag-poland","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}