{"id":373662,"date":"2026-01-16T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:20:11","slug":"ireland-name-team-for-davis-cup-return-to-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373662\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland name team for Davis Cup return to Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland have named their Davis Cup team to take on Syria in their World Group II play-off tie in February.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Agwi, Peter Buldorini, Conor Gannon, Ammar Elamin and Charlie Barry make up the five-strong squad named by captain Conor Niland for the event at the UL Sport Arena in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, who are seeded for the tie, will face the Syrians on Saturday, 7 February and Sunday, 8 February across five matches consisting of singles and one doubles match.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick previously played host to a Davis Cup tie in Limerick back in February 2024 when Austria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/tennis\/2024\/0204\/1430448-austria-seal-win-over-gutsy-ireland-in-limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">won a World Group I play-off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to announce the team for our upcoming match against Syria,&#8221; Limerick native Niland said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last tie in my hometown of Limerick was very special. To now also have a Limerick player in Charlie Barry, whose recent performances on the Futures circuit more than justifies his selection, adds something extra. We all can&#8217;t wait to compete in front of our home fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis Cup debutant Barry added that he was relishing representing his country in his home county.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely excited for the opportunity to perform on home soil. It\u2019s always been a dream of mine to play Davis Cup for Ireland. Almost 20 years since I first picked up a tennis racket, it feels incredibly special to come full circle and play my first tie in Limerick,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland have named their Davis Cup team to take on Syria in their World Group II play-off tie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}