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In the Davis Cup World Group quarterfinals Germany takes on France July 8^th through the 10^th. This match will happen at the TC Wiessenhof Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany and will be played on Clay Courts outdoors. France has a 6-2 lead right now against Germany. They made it past Australia in the first round and have not lost to Germany since 1938. Germany had a great match in the first round as well with Croatia. That was a great match with Ivo Karlovic serving to take the third point in the fifth rubber. 

 

 

Here is the teams for the two nations. Germany will be bringing 18^th ranked Florian Mayer. Philipp Kohlschreiber is also playing for the Germans as well as Philipp Petzschner and Christopher Kas. For the French team, number eight Gael Monfils is the leading man followed by thirteenth ranked Richard Gasquet. Also on the team for France is Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra. Argentina and Kazakhstan also play in the World Group quarterfinal this week as well, along with Sweden and Serbia and the United States and Spain.

 

 

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Posted: 24th April 2010

 

The weekend for Fed Cup is next weekend, with ten different match-ups going on, and starting us off on the premier event in team tennis for women. We have Poland and Spain as well as the USA versus Russia and Belgium and Estonia, as well as Serbia versus Slovakia. There is sure to be some great action in our features match which is Germany and France as Fed Cup action begins April 24^th and 25^th. You can watch this event live by getting your membership at any of the banners on this page for high quality streaming video access.

 

 

Let's take a look at the German team in a moment. First, these two nations have played each other five times thus far and its been fairy even with a record of 3-2 in favor of France. First time they played France won 2-1, which was just breaking in the Fed Cup back in 1963 its inaugural year. Now, Germany was Fed Cup champs in 1987 and more recently in 1992. Both times they had Steffi Graf on their team. The 2010 team consists of Sabine Lisicki, Andreas Petkovic, Julia Goerges, Tatjana Malek and Barbara Rittner as team captain.

 

 

France has two Fed Cup titles as well, both of them more recent than the newest German title. France won in 1997 and again in 2003. Amelie Mauresmo helped to win the 2003 title, retiring just last year. The French team this year has Julie Coin, Alize Cornet, Pauline Parmentier and Aravane Rezai. Nicolas Escude is the team captain for France. If you want to watch this Fed Cup match-up get your membership at the banners on this page and see the teams play in high quality video right from the comfort of your computer.

 

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