New Delhi: Zeeshan Ali on Wednesday announced that he has resigned as the coach of the national Davis Cup team ahead of India’s next match against Sweden in Stockholm. “I have resigned as the coach of the Davis Cup team,” Zeeshan Ali told PTI.
Zeeshan (54) replaced Nandan Bal as the coach of the team in 2013 before the match against South Korea in New Delhi. He said, “I have been the coach of the Davis Cup team for 11 years. Most importantly, I was also the Davis Cup captain in the historic match played against Pakistan in Pakistan earlier this year.
I don’t think there is any such person in the country who has had the honour of doing all these three things. Zeeshan said, “There have been players who were captains but I don’t think there has ever been a situation in which the player was also a coach and the coach was also the captain of the team.”
He said, “So I have done all these three things and I think I have achieved everything that could be achieved as far as Davis Cup is concerned. To be honest, I have been thinking about it for some time.” The Indian team will take on Sweden on hard indoor courts in Stockholm on September 14-15.