{"id":614576,"date":"2026-09-28T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614576\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:58:15","slug":"new-zealand-to-host-finland-in-davis-cup-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614576\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to host Finland in Davis Cup 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2a9e9c_7ca1414e183c48588fb36ef10dc24630~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"James Watt in Davis Cup action against Japan recently. New Zealand will likely host Finland in February 2027 PHOTO: MB PHOTO\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.nzsportswire.com\/post\/new-zealand-to-host-finland-in-davis-cup-2027\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/2a9e9c_7ca1414e183c48588fb36ef10dc24630~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1200,h_676,al_c,q_85\/2a9e9c_7ca1414e183c48588fb36ef10dc24630~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>James Watt in Davis Cup action against Japan recently. New Zealand will likely host Finland in February 2027 PHOTO: MB PHOTO<\/p>\n<p class=\"_9Nlgm Dd46l fUDW- lqKvG\" dir=\"auto\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"2q04b5818\" id=\"viewer-2q04b5818\" tabindex=\"-1\">New Zealand has the choice of venue and will likely host top seeds Finland in Davis Cup Group I Playoffs 5-7 February, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_9Nlgm Dd46l fUDW- lqKvG\" dir=\"auto\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"45cpt281\" id=\"viewer-45cpt281\" tabindex=\"-1\">The draw was conducted by World Tennis and has pitted New Zealand against the Scandanavian side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_9Nlgm Dd46l fUDW- lqKvG\" dir=\"auto\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"0770m1144\" id=\"viewer-0770m1144\" tabindex=\"-1\">Finland can call on Otto Virtanen as their top singles play ranked 106 with a career high just inside the top 100. However the remainder of their squad is ranked 400 or higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_9Nlgm Dd46l fUDW- lqKvG\" dir=\"auto\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"174ep1539\" id=\"viewer-174ep1539\" tabindex=\"-1\">They do have the now lowly ranked due to injury Emil Ruusuvuori who is a former top-40 ranked player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_9Nlgm Dd46l fUDW- lqKvG\" dir=\"auto\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"jw2bt2078\" id=\"viewer-jw2bt2078\" tabindex=\"-1\">In doubles Finland can call on doubles  world No 1 Harri Heliovaara a winner of three Grand Slam titles. Their captain is Jarkko Nieminen a winner of the title in Auckland in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_9Nlgm Dd46l fUDW- lqKvG\" dir=\"auto\" data-ricos-paragraph=\"4w52n3873\" id=\"viewer-4w52n3873\" tabindex=\"-1\">The New Zealand team of James Watt, Finn Reynolds, Ajeet Rai, Anton Shepp, Isaac Becroft and captain Artem Sitak lost to Japan in Auckland in Group 1 this month while Finland were beaten by Monaco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Watt in Davis Cup action against Japan recently. New Zealand will likely host Finland in February 2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-614576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}