{"id":421431,"date":"2024-09-10T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=421431"},"modified":"2024-09-11T04:10:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:10:44","slug":"aussies-get-revenge-davis-cup-campaign-off-to-hot-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=421431","title":{"rendered":"Aussies get revenge Davis Cup campaign off to hot start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia scored a strong start to the 2024 Davis Cup<\/a> with the team out to make amends for the past two years.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe Aussies rolled France 2-1 to kick things off in Group B on Wednesday morning (AEST).<\/p>\n

They've been runner-up in the international competition the past two years.<\/p>\n

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Thanasi Kokkinakis won his singles clash against \ufeffArthur Fils, before Alexei Popyrin went down to France's No.1 player Ugo Humbert to level things up.<\/p>\n

In the doubles, Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Edouard Roger-Vasselin saved a match point then took the second set of the decisive match but ultimately lost to Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Australia served 16 aces to France's nine, and had only 17 unforced errors to their opponent's 37 for the tie.<\/p>\n

\"Matthew<\/p>\n

France were better at the net and won 18 points there in contrast to Australia's 15.<\/p>\n

"We were unlucky not to get the second [set], but we knew we just had to reset and play another good set," Ebden said.<\/p>\n

Kokkinakis was thrilled to win his match after being a late call-up to replace the injured Alex de Minaur.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Obviously we've got a lot of options and great depth at the moment, so I still wasn't sure if I'd get the call-up," Kokkinakis said.<\/p>\n

"I'm happy that Lleyton (Hewitt) trusted me to go in there and do the job."<\/p>\n

Watch the 2024 Davis Cup tennis for free on <\/strong><\/em>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\ufeff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Italy beat Australia for the 2023 title.<\/p>\n

Among other big names competing this week are Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and British player Jack Draper, who made it to the US Open semi finals last week.<\/p>\n

Even without world No.2 Alexander Zverev, Germany defeated Slovakia 3-0.<\/p>\n

Four groups play across four cities this week to qualify for the Final 8 knockout stage to be held in Malaga, Spain, in November. The top two in each four-team group will advance.<\/p>\n

Germany and Slovakia were the first teams in action playing in China in Group C, which also includes the United States. The US plays China on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Germany sent out Maximilian Marterer in the first singles match and the 104th-ranked player won 6-4, 7-5 against Lukas Klein. German Yannick Hanfmann then saved a match point and fought back from a set down to win 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) against Jozef Kovalik in the second singles match.<\/p>\n

US Open finalists Tim P\u00fctz and Kevin Krawietz completed the German win by claiming the doubles match 7-5, 6-3 against Klein and Igor Zelenay.<\/p>\n

Playing in Group D, Denis Shapovalov converted all four break points to defeat Francisco Cerundolo 7-5, 6-3 and give Canada an early lead.<\/p>\n

Felix Auger-Aliassime then beat Sebastian Baez 6-3, 6-3 to clinch Canada's victory. It ended 2-1 after Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni came from behind to beat Shapovalov and Vasek Pospisil 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia scored a strong start to the 2024 Davis Cup with the team out to make amends for the past two years. \ufeffThe Aussies rolled […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421433,"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\/421431"}],"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=421431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421436,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421431\/revisions\/421436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/421433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}