Roger Federer to play against Kazakhstan at Davis Cup
The ex-world number 1 tennis professional will defend the honor of his country as a member of the Swiss national team in the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup World Group. "Joining my friends, Severin Luthi and Stanislas Wawrinka against Kazakhstan in April!" Federer posted on Twitter.
The quarter-finals of the Davis Cup World Group between Kazakhstan and Switzerland will take place on April 4-6, 2014 in Switzerland.
Kazakhstan has won over the national team of Belgium with the score of 3:2 to reach the Davis quarter-finals. It is the third time when Kazakhstan made it into the quarter-finals of Davis Cup in four years.
NOTE: Roger Federer holds several men's world records of the Open Era: holding the world No. 1 position for 302 weeks overal including a 237-consecutive-week stretch at the top from 2004 to 2008, winning 17 Grand Slam singles titles; reaching the finals of each Grand Slam tournament at least five times (an all-time record); and reaching the Wimbledon final eight times. He is one of seven men, and one of four in the Open Era, to capture the career Grand Slam. Federer also shares the Open Era record for most titles at the Australian Open with Agassi and Novak Djokovic, at Wimbledon with Pete Sampras and at the US Open with Jimmy Connors and Sampras.
