The United Cup saw Greece’s debut on Tuesday. The presence of Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari has made the Greek nation one of the serious candidates for the title, but the truth is that things could not have started worse.
In the beginning, The ATP number 6 did not go on court to play his match against Chilean Nicolas Jarrywho won a tough match against Stefanos Sacellaridis 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
What did not fail was Sakkariwho needed just over an hour to defeat Daniela Seguel 6-0, 6-1 and make the tie 1-1.
Everything will be decided, therefore, in the mixed doubles match, where Tsitsipas hopes to get rid of the bad taste in his mouth that he was unable to play in the singles. But it’s not like that. Daniela Seguel and Tomás Barrios Vera played the main points better to end the match and the tie against Stefanos and Sakkari for a tight 6-7(5), 6-3, 10-6.
After today, Greece closes group B with 0-1 and is obliged to beat Canada this Wednesday in the eliminator that closes the group. If they do so, there will be a triple tie (1-1) and one of the series will have to use the number of sets won at home.
The teams from Poland and Australia were the first to be confirmed in the quarterfinals on Mondayafter Spain and the United States were eliminated respectively in the group stage on the fourth day of the tournament.
In the case of the Polish team, they started by losing their cross when Hubert Hurcakz fell against Alejandro Davidovich 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4. However, the subsequent victory of Iga Swiatek against Sara Sorribes by 6-2 and 6-1 and the one achieved in doubles by 6-0 and 6-0 with the same four protagonists on the court confirmed of his return and the pass as the first of a group A which also included Brazil.
For its part, Australia also managed to prove its classification after winning the doubles Matthew Ebden and Storm Hunter defeated Jessica Pegula and Rajeev Ram 6-3 and 6-1.
Earlier, Alex de Minaur defeated Taylor Fritz 6-4 and 6-2 while Pegula herself defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 7-6 and 6-3 to level the head-to-head match. Along with the United States, the Great Britain team was also eliminated from group C.
Additionally, on the fourth date, matches corresponding to groups D and F were played.. In the first of them, France topped Germany by taking Caroline García and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in a very close doubles match against Angelique Kerber and Alexander Zverev (7-6, 2-6 and 12-10).
Before, Zverev eliminated Adrian Mannarino (4-6, 6-4 and 6-3) and Kerber lost against García (1-6, 6-2 and 6-2).
Regarding group F, the doubles will also be decided in Croatia-Norway. The Nordics took it with Ulrikke Eikkeri and Casper Rudd beating Donna Vekic and Ivan Dodig (6-2, 3-6 and 10-7). In singles, Vekic won against Malene Helgo (7-5, 3-6 and 6-3) and Rudd against Borna Coric (6-4 and 6-1).
This way, there are still two days of the group stage to play. Also on Tuesday, Croatia will play the Netherlands and the Czech Republic will play Serbia. while on Wednesday France will do it in Italy and Greece in Canada.
Source: La Verdad
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