{"id":22445,"date":"2013-09-06T02:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/slovenia-name-strongest-side-for-sa-davis-cup-clash\/"},"modified":"2013-09-06T02:08:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:08:28","slug":"slovenia-name-strongest-side-for-sa-davis-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/slovenia-name-strongest-side-for-sa-davis-cup-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia name strongest side for SA Davis Cup clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=15750\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15750\" alt=\"Dean O\u2019Brien. Photo: Jacaranda FM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/21817_DEAN-O-BRIEN_post_detail_web.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean O\u2019Brien. Photo: Jacaranda FM<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia have announced their best possible team to face South Africa in their crucial Europe\/Africa Zone group one first round play-off in the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas tie next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The tie, to be played from September 13 to 15, will be staged at Park Tivoli in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. The tie takes place outdoors on red clay, after the venue changed from the previously announced TS Bezigrad, also in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia\u2019s non-playing captain Blaz Trupej nominated three of his four best possible players for their home tie, namely, Grega Zemlja, Blaz Kavcic, Blaz Rola and Janez Semrajc. Missing from the line-up is the country\u2019s second-highest ranked player, Algaz Bedene, who has been sidelined due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa will be without their top player Kevin Anderson, who made himself unavailable, and the injured Izak van der Merwe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/davis-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa and Slovenia are ranked 34 and 39 respectively on the Davis Cup world rankings<\/a>. The teams are:<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia<br \/>\nGrega Zemlja (singles 62; doubles 311)<br \/>\nBlaz Kavcic (singles 126; doubles 422)<br \/>\nBlaz Rola (singles 217; doubles 481)<br \/>\nJanez Semrajc (singles 493; doubles 1137)<br \/>\nCaptain: Blaz Trupej<\/p>\n<p>South Africa<br \/>\nRik De Voest (singles 162; doubles 199)<br \/>\nRaven Klaasen (doubles 62)<br \/>\nRuan Roelofse (singles 513; doubles 154)<br \/>\nDean O\u2019Brien (singles 577; doubles 638)<br \/>\nNikala Scholtz (singles 639; doubles 844)<br \/>\nCaptain: John Laffnie de Jager<\/p>\n<p>For more Davis Cup news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/davis-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/obrien-joins-davis-cup-team-for-slovenia-tie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/21817_193985098_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/obrien-joins-davis-cup-team-for-slovenia-tie\/\" target=\"_blank\">O\u2019Brien joins Davis Cup team for Slovenia tie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/21817_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean O\u2019Brien. Photo: Jacaranda FM Slovenia have announced their best possible team to face South Africa in their crucial Europe\/Africa Zone group one first round play-off in the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas tie next weekend. The tie, to be played from September 13 to 15, will be staged at Park Tivoli in the Slovenian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}