Summary Czech Republic will take on Spain in the Davis Cup final starting on Friday.
The Czech Republic will aim to avenge a humiliating 5-0 defeat in the 2009 Davis Cup final when they take on holders Spain in this year s climax starting here on Friday.
The team led by Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek will also want to add another trophy to the Fed Cup which the Czech women s team lifted in Prague earlier this month.
World number six Berdych and 37th-ranked Stepanek are due to face David Ferrer, who stands fifth in the rankings, and 11th-ranked Nicolas Almagro in the singles on the hardcourt of Prague s O2 Arena.
Spain will miss their number one Rafael Nadal, who is recovering from a knee injury and who led the team in the 2009 thrashing of the Czechs on a clay court in Barcelona.
Stepanek waved that bad memory aside, saying "a lot of time has passed since then."
"Our three greatest advantages are the choice of surface, the home crowd and Nadal s absence," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Berdych, meanwhile, maintained that a lack of experience had hurt the Czechs back in 2009.
Spain s captain Alex Corretja agreed that the memory of 2009 would not mean much.
"I wish I could say yes but unfortunately I have to say no. It s an absolutely different competition, playing on clay and on this surface," he said.
The surface -- Novacrylic Ultracushion -- which the Czechs tested during the Fed Cup finals two weeks ago -- can make all the difference.
Sticking with the team that beat Argentina in the semi-finals, Czech captain Jaroslav Navratil also called up world number 87 Lukas Rosol and 186th-ranked Ivo Minar.
Corretja has also left the team unchanged from the semi-finals in which they eased past the United States.
For the doubles, Spain will bet on Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, who got a massive boost on Monday as they won the ATP Tour Finals in London.
"We come here with a lot of confidence," said Granollers.
But Stepanek said this did not mean much: "That doesn t really count here, Davis Cup is a unique contest."
Stepanek and India s Leander Paes were the only pair to beat Granollers and Lopez in London.
The 100th edition of the Davis Cup final will be played in front of almost 14,000 people -- a crowd that pushed the Czech women s team to a Fed Cup defence following a final victory over Serbia on the first weekend in November.
A Davis Cup win would give Czechs a rare team double -- last achieved by the United States in 1990.
Spain are looking to add a fourth crown to their three Davis Cup trophies from the last four years. They also won the cup in 2000 and 2004.
Czechoslovakia, which split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, won the Davis Cup in 1980 with a team led by the then 20-year-old Ivan Lendl.
