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September 18, 2011, Sunday
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JO-WILFRIED Tsonga and Michael Llodra led a rampant France past Spain in yesterday's doubles to cut their Davis Cup semifinal deficit to 2-1.
Tsonga and Llodra made easy work of Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, converting a break point on their very first chance and never looking back to secure a 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 victory in 1 hour, 39 minutes at Cordoba's bullring.
While Spain was on the receiving end of a drubbing yesterday, the four-time champion can still clinch its place in the final today when Rafael Nadal is scheduled to face Gilles Simon in reverse singles on the outdoor clay.
On Friday, Nadal routed Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 and compatriot David Ferrer dismantled Simon 6-1, 6-4, 6-1.
Argentina led Serbia 2-0 after Friday's singles in the other semifinal in Belgrade.
US Open champion Novak Djokovic was a late withdrawal from the singles for Serbia with a back problem. His replacement, Viktor Troicki, lost to David Nalbandian 4-6, 6-4, 2-6, 3-6.
Juan Martin del Potro defeated Janko Tipsarevic 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to put Argentina 2-0 ahead.
In Sydney, Lleyton Hewitt and Chris Guccione won the doubles rubber to give Australia a 2-1 lead against Roger Federer's Switzerland in the Davis Cup world group playoff tie yesterday.
With the tie level at 1-1 after Friday's singles matches, Hewitt and Guccione came back strongly after losing the first set to defeat the Beijing Olympics gold medal winning pair of Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (5).
"At times I thought we were playing Pat Rafter at the net he (Hewitt) was volleying so well," Federer said after the match.
Australia will need one more victory from the remaining two rubbers today to return to the elite world group for the first time since 2007.
Teenager Bernard Tomic will take on Federer while Hewitt will play Wawrinka in the reverse singles.
Australia has won the Davis Cup 23 times, second only to the United States' 32 titles.
But the Aussies have been knocked out of the world group several times in recent years due to frequent injuries to Hewitt and the retirements of Mark Philippoussis and Rafter, who now is the Australian captain.
In Bucharest, Romania, Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek made sure the Czech Republic stayed in the world group next year after winning their doubles match yesterday against Romania to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
The pair, who had won their singles matches on Friday, teamed up to beat Horia Tecau and Marius Copil 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 on claycourt.
Tsonga and Llodra made easy work of Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, converting a break point on their very first chance and never looking back to secure a 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 victory in 1 hour, 39 minutes at Cordoba's bullring.
While Spain was on the receiving end of a drubbing yesterday, the four-time champion can still clinch its place in the final today when Rafael Nadal is scheduled to face Gilles Simon in reverse singles on the outdoor clay.
On Friday, Nadal routed Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 and compatriot David Ferrer dismantled Simon 6-1, 6-4, 6-1.
Argentina led Serbia 2-0 after Friday's singles in the other semifinal in Belgrade.
US Open champion Novak Djokovic was a late withdrawal from the singles for Serbia with a back problem. His replacement, Viktor Troicki, lost to David Nalbandian 4-6, 6-4, 2-6, 3-6.
Juan Martin del Potro defeated Janko Tipsarevic 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to put Argentina 2-0 ahead.
In Sydney, Lleyton Hewitt and Chris Guccione won the doubles rubber to give Australia a 2-1 lead against Roger Federer's Switzerland in the Davis Cup world group playoff tie yesterday.
With the tie level at 1-1 after Friday's singles matches, Hewitt and Guccione came back strongly after losing the first set to defeat the Beijing Olympics gold medal winning pair of Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (5).
"At times I thought we were playing Pat Rafter at the net he (Hewitt) was volleying so well," Federer said after the match.
Australia will need one more victory from the remaining two rubbers today to return to the elite world group for the first time since 2007.
Teenager Bernard Tomic will take on Federer while Hewitt will play Wawrinka in the reverse singles.
Australia has won the Davis Cup 23 times, second only to the United States' 32 titles.
But the Aussies have been knocked out of the world group several times in recent years due to frequent injuries to Hewitt and the retirements of Mark Philippoussis and Rafter, who now is the Australian captain.
In Bucharest, Romania, Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek made sure the Czech Republic stayed in the world group next year after winning their doubles match yesterday against Romania to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
The pair, who had won their singles matches on Friday, teamed up to beat Horia Tecau and Marius Copil 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 on claycourt.
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