Christian Harrison and Ethan Quinn on their Davis Cup debuts
I spoke to the Australian Open doubles champion and rising American about their first Davis Cup call-up.
If you’re an American men’s tennis player, playing for the Davis Cup team is something of a rite of passage. By all accounts, it’s like a traveling, non-toxic fraternity—one where the self-interest of playing an individual (or, at most, two-person team) sport is set aside for the greater good.
So when Christian Harrison (doubles No. 11) and Ethan Quinn (singles No. 68) got the call to play the first Davis Cup tie of the year against Hungary in the city of Tatanbánya, it was a no-brainer. They’re joined by fellow first-timer Emilio Nava and vets Tommy Paul and Austin Krajicek.
“We have such a strong group of guys, so being the twelfth-ranked American, I didn’t know when that time would come,” said 21-year-old Quinn over the phone the day before the draw ceremony. “So the minute I got the call I was in, because I don’t know when the next opportunity will be.”
