Davis Cup clash

Czech number one Tomas Berdych has been drawn against Serbian number two Viktor Troicki. The match in the opening rubber of their Davis Cup World Group quarter-final starting here on Friday. Berdych, ranked seventh, holds a 2-1 record against 27th-ranked Troicki but it will be the first time the pair have met on clay. Radek Stepanek will then take on Janko Tipsarevic, ranked eighth, in the 02 Arena, before the doubles teams of Frantisek Cermak and Lukas Rosol for the Czechs and Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac for the Serbs go head-to-head on Saturday. Tipsarevic has a 2-1 career record against Stepanek but the Czech player won their only previous meeting on clay in Barcelona three years ago. The teams are 5-5 in previous meetings, with Serbia winning their last confrontation in the 2010 semi-finals before going on to lift the title. The winners will meet either Argentina or Croatia in September s semi-finals.