Determining Djokovic's opponents in the 2024 Davis Cup

The 2023 Davis Cup has just ended with the championship belonging to the Italian team after defeating Australia in the final. While the Italian could extend their celebrations, the other teams have known their opponents in the 2024 Davis Cup qualifiers.

The 2024 Davis Cup - the 112th season of the oldest team tennis tournament in the world, will begin with the qualifying round in the first week of February 2024. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has drawn lots, determining 12 matches to take place over 3 days, starting from February 2.

After a painful defeat in the semi-final against Italy in the 2023 tournament, Serbia will begin their journey towards a second Davis Cup title against Slovakia.

Novak Djokovic ended his proud 12-year unbeaten streak (21 matches) in the tournament when he lost to Jannik Sinner, but that gave him more motivation for next season.

Meanwhile, Alexander Zverev's Germany lost to Switzerland in this year's qualifiers. Next year, the draw will take them to the tough opponent Hungary, a team with talented tennis players such as Fabian Marozsan and Marton Fucsovics.

As for the Swiss team, they will play the Netherlands, one of the teams in the quarter-finals in 2023.

Canada - the 2022 Davis Cup champion, is the top seed in next year's qualifiers and will face South Korea, while the two-time champion Croatia will meet Belgium.

The Czech Republic lost painfully to Australia in the quarter-finals of the 2023 Davis Cup, and will try to return to the Final 8 once again. Jiri Lecka and his teammates will face Israel, who beat Japan spectacularly in Group I in September.

One of the surprises of the 2023 tournament was that Finland reached the Davis Cup semi-finals for the first time. They are expected to advance to the final round once again when facing Portugal.

There is an interesting match in South America between Chile and Peru, while the US, the team that was unfortunately eliminated from the group stage in the 2023 Final Round, will do it again when they face Ukraine.

Argentina will face Kazakhstan under Alexander Bublik, while the fourth South American country in the qualifying round, Brazil, will face Sweden - a team that has won the championship 7 times.

Currently, the 4 teams that have entered the final round have been identified as Italy, Australia - 2 teams that entered the 2023 Davis Cup finals, the UK and Spain - special allowances.

After the qualifying round in February 2024, the final round will take place in September with matches in the group stage. November will be a knockout round and the champion will be determined.