World Team Championship Begins Sunday with Germany v. USA

The low-key World Team Championships begin on Sunday with a round-robin 8-nation format broken into two groups of four. In the “Red Group” (pronounced “Rowt”), it’s Chile, Argentina, France and the Czech Republic.

The “Blue Group” (pronounced “Blau”) features Germany, Sweden, Spain and the USA.

On Sunday, the event gets underway with the Red Group leading things off. Defending champion Chile (Gonzalez, Massu) will take on the Czech Republic (Novak, Berdych) for the second consecutive time on Opening Sunday while in the first Blue group meeting to follow Germany (Tommy Haas, Nicolas Kiefer) battles the U.S (Jeff Morrison, Vince Spadea).

Argentina (Guillermo Coria, Gaston Gaudio), France (Sebastien Grosjean, Michael Llodra), Sweden (Joachim Johansson , Thomas Johansson) and Spain (Tommy Robredo, David Ferrer) will be in action on Monday.