{"id":41398,"date":"2021-03-05T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=41398"},"modified":"2021-03-05T19:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:21:26","slug":"japan-take-2-0-lead-over-pakistan-in-davis-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=41398","title":{"rendered":"Japan take 2-0 lead over Pakistan in Davis Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Japan.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Japan were too strong for hosts Pakistan on the first day of the Davis Cup World Group I first-round clash.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yosuke Watanuki beat Aqeel Khan 6-3, 6-2 without sweating much in the opening singles while Kaichi Uchida was a 6-4, 7-6 (7\/4) winner against Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in one hour and 33 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Shintaro Mochizuki and Yosuke will feature in Saturday&#8217;s doubles against Qureshi and Khan before the reverse singles on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 24 ties across World Group I and World Group II, four are taking place this weekend, with the remaining 20 ties scheduled for September.<\/p>\n<p>Japan, whose best Davis Cup finish was a runner-up spot in 1921, had lost to Ecuador in March last year while Pakistan were outplayed by arch-rivals India last year.<\/p>\n<p>The tie is played without spectators due to Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The eight highest-ranked winning nations of the World Group I ties in March-September 2021 will automatically progress to the 2022 Davis Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The four lowest-ranked winners will take part in an additional knock-out tie in November, with the two winners progressing to the 2022 Qualifiers and two losers contesting the 2022 World Group I Play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The losing nations from the World Group I ties will compete in the World Group I Play-Offs in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis Cup Group I first round: Japan 2, Pakistan 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yosuke Watanuki (Japan) beat Aqeel Khan (Pakistan) 6-3, 6-2<\/p>\n<p>Kaichi Uchida (Japan) beat Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (Pakistan) 6-4, 7-6 (7-4)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>ISLAMABAD: Japan were too strong for hosts Pakistan on the first day of the Davis Cup World Group I first-round clash. Yosuke Watanuki beat Aqeel <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=41398\" title=\"Japan take 2-0 lead over Pakistan in Davis Cup tie\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41400,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41398\/revisions\/41400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}