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Canada will have home-court advantage in its bid to stay among the worlds best tennis countries. Niles Paul Jersey . Canada will host Colombia in a Sept. 12-14 tie, with the winner starting Davis Cup play in the World Group next year. The location of the best-of-five competition has yet to be announced, but hosting the tie is a definite advantage for Canada, says the team captain. "The number one thing I think we were hoping for was to play at home," Martin Larendeau said Tuesday on a conference call. "Weve seen over the last few years when we play at home, our odds increase dramatically." Canada beat both Spain and Italy indoors in Vancouver last year to reach the semifinals for the first time in history before bowing out to Serbia. The Davis Cup, founded in 1900, is the touted as the largest annual international team competition in sport with 122 countries participating in 2014. A tie consists of two singles matches on the first day, a doubles match on Day 2 and concludes with a pair of singles matches on the third day. The ascension of Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., and Vasek Pospisil of Vancouver in mens singles, as well as the work of tireless and decorated doubles veteran Daniel Nestor of Toronto, turned Canada into a consistent Davis Cup threat in recent years. Canada started this years Davis Cup in the World Group for a third straight year. Beset by injuries, however, Canada lost 4-1 to Japan in Tokyo in February. Raonic and Pospisil didnt play at all and Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., retired in the second set of a singles match on the final day because of a stomach injury. So Japan advanced to the quarter-finals, while Canada must win the playoff versus Colombia to start 2015 in the World Group again. Canada fell 4-1 to Colombia in Bogota the last time the two countries met in 2010. Because that tie was played on the road, its Canadas turn to host the South Americans. The Canadians need to leverage a friendly, familiar venue into a victory, lest they drop into Americas Group 1 qualifying matches next year. "I dont think anybody wants to go back to Group 1, where we would have to face a lot of South Americans teams and away ties and stuff," Larendeau said. "We have to make the most of this window to play a South American team at home. Everyone is keen on us staying in the World Group. "Our reference for us is going to be the matches last February and last April when we played at home. I think its going to bring a lot of good feelings back to play at home and hopefully that will put the guys in a productive frame of mind." Tennis Canada will announce the location at a later date. Larendeau says he and the athletes will have some input into the location, but not the final say. "The good thing about playing in September is we have options to play indoors or outdoors. Its something we dont have when we play in February or even April," the Laurendeau said. "We need the players feedback to see how they think theyre going to match up in altitude, sea level, indoors, outdoors. The players and myself have a bit of a say on where wed like to play, but it doesnt come down to that. "Theres executive decisions and theres also a marketplace, theres also promoting the game in cities or in areas that are not able to see a lot of tennis. Theres a lot of factors that go in, but our job is to come up to the board of directors and president and say these are the conditions wed like to play in and lets work on the venue now." Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Montreal are previous Canadian host cities of World Group ties. Canada is seeded No. 8, while Colombia is ranked No. 26 in Davis Cup. Raonic is currently No. 11 in ATP mens singles and Pospisil is 28th. Colombia doesnt have a singles player in the worlds top 50, but the doubles team of Juan-Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah is formidable. That duo lost the final of last months Sony Open to world No. 1 Bob and Mike Bryan of the U.S. "I think Colombia is a very tough team," Larendeau said. "They have a lot of depth, they have an excellent doubles team and they have a lot of experience in singles play." Will Compton Jersey . Granada defender Diego Mainz barged into the back of Villa to send the Spain striker to the ground inside the area and Costa stepped up to the spot to score his 12th league goal in the 38th minute. Costa showed no effects of the news that his Brazilian citizenship may be revoked after he elected to play for Spains national team, as the forward was a constant threat for Atletico and forced several saves from goalkeeper Roberto. Art Monk Jersey . -- The NFL cancelled its Hall of Fame game between St.Pavel Datsyuk will sit out again Thursday night when Detroit visits Winnipeg, but the Red Wings have played well during their star centers absences this season. Following a lopsided victory to open a three-game road trip, Detroit will try to keep rolling against the Jets, winners in three of four at home. Viewers in the Jets region can watch the game starting at 6:30pm ct/7:30pm et or listen on TSN Radio 1290 Winnipeg starting at 6pm ct/7pm et. Winnipeg is one of the leagues best defensive teams, allowing 2.05 goals per game, but was averaging 1.78 offensively before scoring a combined six goals in the past two contests. Michael Frolik had his third goal in four games in the third period Tuesday and assisted on another. Youre hopeful that you can get closer to your team identity. I think were on page with that, coach Paul Maurice said. I have a little longer-term perspective on what were trying to do. I know its going to take some time. Were in the early stages in a bunch of things, how we generate offense. There are lots of things Im sure are going to get better, but I dont know if theyre going to get better in a week or two. In his first season in Winnipeg, Maurice led his team to a pair of wins over Detroit. Frolik was one of three players with a goal and an assist in a 4-2 home victory Nov. 4, 2013, and the Red Wings couldnt take advantage of two Datsyuk goals in a 3-2 shootout loss in Detroit eight days later. Theyre a good hockey club. Theyve played good teams and had some success, Maurice said. Its quite a challenge, but were playing as strongly now as we have this year. Ondrej Pavelec is 3-1-0 in four career starts against Detroit and has allowed a combined three goals in those three wins, including the shootout victory last November. Backup goaltender Michael Hutchinson, 3-0-1 with a 0.75 GAAA in his last five appearances, has never faced the Red Wings. Doug Williams Jersey. . Petr Mrazek is expected make his season debut for Detroit and face Winnipeg for the first time. Mrazek, 3-5-0 with a 1.80 GAA in 11 career NHL games, is replacing the injured Jonas Gustavsson, who is likely to miss two months after dislocating his left shoulder. Detroit was forced to play without Datsyuk again Tuesday after he aggravated a nagging groin injury, but the Red Wings (9-4-5) routed Columbus 5-0. Two of their younger players, Tomas Tatar and Tomas Jurco, each had a goal and an assist in the most decisive win of the season. They also helped Detroit record a season-high 40 shots and rebound from a 4-1 loss to Montreal on Sunday. We havent been shooting the puck like we should, coach Mike Babcock said. We were always looking for a pass. Tonight, we shot the puck and were rewarded. The Red Wings are 5-1-2 in games Datsyuk has missed and have totaled 12 goals in his three absences since Nov. 6. 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