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FRIBOURG, Switzerland, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Davis Cup first-round series are set for this weekend with some unusually high-profile names taking part.
With Olympic Games eligibility mandating participation on national teams in competitions such as the women's Fed Cup and the men's Davis Cup, the international team events are grabbing more attention in 2012.
Among the eight first-round series this week is the United States at Switzerland, with world No. 3 Roger Federer, who isn't a regular on the Swiss team, on hand in Fribourg.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic helped Serbia to the Davis Cup title in 2010 and also played last year. No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal is a consistent presence for Spain, which has won three of the last four Davis Cups.
Having already proved their team bone fides, they won't be on hand as the Davis Cup World Group opens 2012 play. But Federer and Top 20 players Mardy Fish and John Isner for the United States, Nicolas Almagro for Spain, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils for France, Tomas Berdych for the Czech Republic, Janko Tipsarevic for Serbia and Kei Nishikori for Japan are all in hand for this weekend's play.
The schedule calls for defending champion Spain to play host to Kazakhstan while Russia travels to Austria, France plays at Canada and the United States is at Switzerland. The other series have Italy at the Czech Republic, Sweden going to Serbia, Croatia facing Japan and 2011 runner-up Argentina at Germany.
The best-of-five series features two singles matches Friday, a doubles match Saturday and two more singles matches Sunday.
This weekend's winners advance to the Davis Cup quarterfinals April 6-8. The semifinals are Sept. 14-16 with the 2012 title to be decided Nov. 16-18.
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