The equal amount wins for Alexa de Minaur and Aleksandar Vukic Place Australia in the command position in the Davis Cup qualifying tie in Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sweden, 31 January 2025 | AAP
Trusty Davis Cup Old Hand Hand Alex de Minaur and a newcomer in late developing Aleksandar Vukic Vali gave a team of culture APP Australian Davis Cup well on the way to win their first qualifying tie against Sweden in Stockholm.
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Then Vukic, enthusiastic that he debuted in the “men’s tennis championship” at the age of 28, described his introduction by defeating 21-year-old Leo Borg, son of Swedish Great Bjorn Borg, 6-4 6-4.
Leading 2-0 after the first two days in the best of the five-Cravan, Lleyton Hewitt’s ready to seal their second round. Olympic gold medalists John Peers and Matt Ebden are statistically preferred to defeat Filip Bergevi and Andre Goransson on Sunday morning in singles.
16. The victory in Davis Cupe’s Singles’s de Minaur gave the Australian team the ideal elevator and silenced the vocal 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 win Australia, ”said De Minaur Dave, which included his mother Esther and a group of travelers” Dundees “.
The Demon strikes in Stockholm 😈
Alex de Minaur powers through the second set to take the match 7-5 6-1, giving Australia a 1-0 lead in the tie 🙌#DavisCup | @TennisAustralia pic.twitter.com/B5aX8KkQqi
— Davis Cup (@DavisCup) January 31, 2025
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 de Minaur shot a shot in the opening Sade-one Rally won the Australians continued for 41 strokes-one of the men did not even get a smell of break in the first 10 games.
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.
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 a boy with a famous name, but young Borg, whose father won the Davis Cup this year 50 years ago, did not match the world no.
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.
A dream debut 💚💛
A strong performance from Aleksandar Vukic means the @CultureAmp Australian Davis Cup team is one win away from progressing to the next stage. pic.twitter.com/jqlzNz0Fpc
— TennisAustralia (@TennisAustralia) January 31, 2025
World no. 484 Borg was still Doughty and won in the second lead of 5-4, but Vukic raised its level whenever the danger approaches, 10 aces helped.
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.”
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