Baylor MT Alum Soto Nominated for Davis Cup

[Pirtle, Colin]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 6, 2022

Baylor MT Alum Soto Nominated for Davis Cup
Soto makes third appearance in World Cup of Tennis

For more information contact: Colin Pirtle, 940-564-0351, Colin_Pirtle1 at Baylor.edu


WACO, Texas – Baylor men's tennis alum Matias Soto will play for Team Chile in the Davis Cup for the third time in his career this month.

Soto last competed in the Davis Cup in September of 2021 and May 2022.

Seeded sixth, Chile will play Team Peru in Lima, Peru, on Sept. 16-17 at Club Lawn Tennis de La Exposicion in the World Group 1 First Round. Chile is ranked 23rd with 279.38 points, while Peru is ranked 34th.

He joins Chilean team members Alejandro Tabilo, Cristian Garin, Nicolas Jarry and Gonzalo Lama on the squad. Their captain is Nicolas Massu, former ATP No. 9 player and two-time Olympic gold medalist.



Soto enters the Davis Cup carrying a No. 528 ATP rating in singles and 1040 in doubles.



Ties in World Group I will consist of five matches played over two days, with two singles played on day one and two reverse singles on day two, followed by the doubles match. All matches are the best of three tiebreak sets.



Previous Bears who have played in the Davis Cup are John Peers for Australia, Jimmy Bendeck for Honduras and Adrian Boitan with Romania.



For more information, visit www.DavisCup.com<http://www.DavisCup.com> and specific information on the match can be found here<https://www.daviscup.com/en/draws-results/tie.aspx?id=M-DC-2022-WG1-M-CHI-PER-01>.



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Colin Pirtle | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (T&F, XC, MTEN, interim WBB)
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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