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Fernando is currently training in Las Vegas right now. His next tournament starts in just about a week, at Legg Mason in Washington DC. After that, he’ll be playing the Toronto and Cincinnati Masters before preparing for the final Slam of the year at the US Open. Vamos Fernando!

The Spanish Davis Cup team has joined the “Show abuse the red card” campaign sponsored by the Ministry of Equality.

The players posed holding a symbolic red cards as a sign of social rejection against abusers.

The players joined the cause while in France preparing for last weekend’s Davis Cup quarterfinal in the town of Clermont Ferrand.

The cause is the result of an agreement signed on May 20 by Spain’s Equality Minister Bibiana Aido and President of the RFET to promote equality between men and women and to create awareness and encourage the prevention of gender violence.

The campaign, the minister said at the signing of the agreement, “holds the prospect of making a simple gesture, a symbol recognized by all, a gesture involving the whole society: drawing a red card against all abusers.”

Spain was knocked out of the Davis Cup in the quarterfinals with a clean sweep by France, 5-0, preventing them from attempting a Davis Cup hat trick. Fernando lost his singles match on Friday against Michael Llodra, and his doubles with Feliciano against Llodra and Julien Benneteau, both matches going to four sets.

Fernando is currently in Madrid celebrating Spain’s victory at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. His next tournament is the Skistar Swedish Open in Båstad. He has a bye in the first round and will play either Stephane Robert or Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy in the second. Vamos Fer!

Audio interviews from the Davis Cup site with Fernando from the singles and doubles draw and from after his singles and doubles matches.

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Singles Draw

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Doubles Draw

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Post-Match: Singles

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Post-Match: Doubles

Spain has found itself in a two point deficit in the Davis Cup quarterfinal against France. David Ferrer lost the first rubber 6-7³ 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 4-6 to Gael Monfils, despite clawing back from a two set deficit and gaining a crucial break when Monfils was serving for the match in the fourth set.

Fernando lost a tough match against Michael Llodra, 7-6⁵, 4-6, 3-6, 6-7². He was never really able to get a feel on Llodra’s service game, and only had a handful of break points the entire match, one of which he converted.

“Llodra played at a high level and deserved the victory,” Fernando said in the brief press conference after the match.

Tomorrow’s doubles match is crucial if Spain wants to keep their hopes of defending their Davis Cup title alive. Fernando and Feliciano will face Llodra and Julien Benneteau in doubles on Saturday, hoping to get the crucial win to try and make a comeback.

Davis Cup quarterfinals day is here! The opening ceremony kicks off today as well as the first two singles matches. David Ferrer is up first against Gael Monfils, and then Fernando takes on Michael Llodra. Fernando will play doubles with Feliciano on Saturday against Llodra and Benneteau, and the reverse singles will be held on Sunday.

The tie kicks off at 7am EST, 11am GMT and 2:00pm local time (check out this handy time zone converter to find your time zone!) and will be broadcast on several international channels (check here for times and stations)

Vamos and good luck, boys!

Fernando is back to training normally with the team after twisting his ankle during a training session on Monday.

Fernnado is currently aiming to play both singles and doubles with Feliciano, and the two trained with coach Francis Roig and Nicolas Almagro and with David Marrero, who is accompanying the team during their stay in Clermont-Ferrand.

The official draw will take place tomorrow morning and the tie will begin on Friday!

(via noticias web)

Sorry for the lack of updates here! I’m working at a summer camp since two weeks ago and that’s taken up a lot of my time. As you probably already know, Fer lost in the first round of Wimbledon to Fabio Fognini, so he’s been taking some down time over the past two weeks, and now we’re heading into Davis Cup quarterfinal weekend. Fernando, as well as David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro and Feliciano Lopez, will make up the team that Spain will send to France for their quarterfinal tie on the indoor hard courts of Clermont-Ferrand. They’ll face a French team comprised of Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon (who replaces and injured Jo-Wilfried Tsonga), Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau.

The tie will be broadcast live on several international stations, and you can check here for times and channels! Below, you can read and listen to an interview that Fer did with Craig Gabriel:

“Everyone who asks me that, how I see this tie, I say that it’s going to be one of the hardest for the last many years. They have so solid team. They will put, what I think, what I’ve heard, a very fast court. It’s going to be very difficult.

“It’s going to be a really hard, tough crowd, but we have already experienced in Davis Cup with tough crowds, like Argentina. I think that in the players playing now, all of us, we have already enough experience to handle that situation. So I think it’s going to be everything on the court.

“Both teams are unbelievable complete teams, two singles unbelievable and doubles so good, both of them. I think it’s going to be so, so close. Maybe it’s going to 3-2, or maybe it can be 5-0 for one or 5-0 for the other one because that every match is going to be so hard and so close. In Davis Cup you never know. It’s that thing that makes Davis Cup so special.”

“[Winning in Argentina] was of course one point in my career that everything changed. I was No. 16 in the world in that match against Acasuso and just one month later I did the semis in Australia and I went into the Top 10 for the first time in my life.

“The confidence, the spirit, everything that the tie in Argentina gave me, like a person, like a player, it was so much, so important for me. After that I need to say that everything changed so much.”
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click above to hear an audio version of the full interview