Olympic masters John Peters and Matt Ebden met again to cut the emphasis Davis Cup A triumph in Sweden and celebrate your Australian team, which is getting a rare tie back to home.
With Outfit Lleyton Hewitt 2-0 overnight in the first round of the qualifying tie after the first single in Stockholm, the Golden Veterans joined the first time since their Paris triumph to win the dubs of doubles.
The neighbors of Perth and the big friends competed only for the second time as a Davis Cup partnership despite their long experience, they were reflected professionally from the sorting to defeat the home duo, Filip Bergevi and Andre Gorasson, 6-7 (7-9) 3 6-2.
The final victory of the 3-1-peers later lost the comfort against Leo Borg 7-5 6-4-4-4-seized last year’s semifinals, which was released to the second September qualifying round against Belgium or Chile to play at the venue in Australia.
The last tie in the men’s “World Cup of Tennis” to be presented was three years ago when Hewitt’s men were inspired by defeating Hungary in Sydney. And the chance to play in front of the home fans again in the battle to seal the place in November “last 8” week in Bologna in Italy, left the team excited.
“Belgium and Chile are super hard teams, so we are going to look at the tie, but the most important thing is that we all fought here as a team to get a home tie in September,” Ebden said.
“It will be our first home tie in Australia in at least three years – so this one was for the team and took home back home.”
After Friday’s comfortable direct set for Alexa de Minaur and Aleksandar Vukic, it never looked realistic for the hosts, even in front of a loud full house in Royal Tennis Hall in the capital of Sweden.
Combination of 37-year-old Ebden, former World player no. 1, and 36-year-old colleagues, once World no. 2, had to gel again to submit two 30-year-old Swedes.
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Gorasson, a surprising semi -finalist in the recent doubles of the Australian Open, and Bergevi won a single point of the first ensemble – reflected Aussies – before taking a strict circuit breaker at the third specified point.
It was the veteran partnership of Aussie to click on the transfer, he immediately won the first break of the Bergevi’s delivery match at the beginning of the second Stanza and then actually took control to break the Swedish maid in the referee.
“Every match was a battle, but we just fought,” Peers said, greeting Aussie – Dundes – for their constant support.
Not satisfied with his first victory of Davis Cup along with Ebden – the couple lost his only previous rubber seven years ago – Peers, the recent Australian winner for mixed doubles, then even agreed, rather noble to show up for his first copy cup of singles to provide some fun for dissatisfied home support.
His sacrifice saved de Minaur, Vukic and Thanasi Kokkinakis specialists after their recent Australian Open slogans, and for a man who had not played singles on a tour level for ten years, Peers liberated against Bjorn Borg’s boy before he succumbs to over an hour.
