Trust Davis Cup Old Hand Alex de Minaur And the late flowering new boy Aleksandar Vukic gave Australia a good way to victory in his qualifying tie in the first round against Sweden in Stockholm.
World no. 8 de Minaur, in his first trip from his Australian open Jannik Sinner, a quarterly final dust, had to escape Mikael Ymer on Friday (Saturday), before he fled to win 7-5, 6-1.
Then Vukic, excited to be at the 28th World Cup of Male Tennis, ”said his introduction when he defeated 21-year-old Leo Borg, a Swedish big Bjorn Borg, 6-4, 6-4.
Leading 2-0 after the first two days in the best of the top five-buy, Lleyton Hewitt’s ready to seal their second round with the Olympic champions John Peers and Matt Ebden Big Favorites to defeat Filip Bergevi and Andre Gorasson on Saturday (Sunday) doubles.
Minaur’s 16. Davis Cup The singles winners gave the party coated injury to the ideal elevator and silenced a noisy complete house in the Royal Tennis Hall of the Swedish capital.
“It was a competing match, a very tough match. Mikael played well, I knew he would be a very hard opponent, so I’m very happy to get a win for Australia, ”said De Minaur Dava, which included his mother Esther and many noisy travel” Dundes “.
Finally, it ended a direct victory for “Demona” in the fast internal hard judgment, but had his hands filled with almost Ymer, a former Top-50 player who returns after an 18-month ban for anti-building violations and was based on the ITF tournament last week in the victory Luxembourg.
The 26 -year -old match was shot in the opening set – one rally won the Australians continued for 41 strokes – none of the men also received a smell of breaks in the first 10 matches.
But De Minaur performed perfectly and started eight direct points with a relentless deep blow to instantly create a 51-minute set and two points to create another break at the beginning of the second second.
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De Minaur then continued to do six games in a row and wind up the victory against his tiring opponent in an hour 27 minutes.
All domestic hopes were then on the boy with a famous name, but young Borg, whose father won this year Davis Cup 50 years ago, was not for World no. 66 VUKIC, located more than 400 seats above on ATP computer.
Although Borg returned to the level in the first set to 3-3, Vukic, who landed on the team after his amazing Australian Open Run made an apparent replacement for injuries to Nick Kyrgios, Jordan Thompson and Thaiasi Kokkinakis, immediately break love and love and love. to control the opening Stanza.
World no. 484 Borg was still clever, in the second he scored three points of interruptions for leading 5-4, but Vukic raised its level whenever the danger is approaching, which helped 10 aces. He broke to 5-4 and had to bounce another fight from Borg until he finally concluded the agreement in the second match.
“Leo is a very good player.” He did it very hard and it is always difficult to play in front of the home crowd of the opponent. A match I am very happy to win, ”Vukic smiled. “Alex did a great job in front of me, and hopefully we just relax and heal before the boys double to try to do their thing.”
