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Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram sealed the U.S.’s spot in the Davis Cup Finals group stage with Friday’s doubles victory over Ukraine.
In the preliminary round in Lithuania, the American doubles pair defeated Ilya Belovorodko and Oleksiy Krutyv 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
Taylor Fritz then defeated Vladislav Orlov 6-3, 6-4 to make the American team 4-0 in a best-of-five match.
“I’m proud of our players,” U.S. captain Bob Bryan said as his team, with a record 32 championships, qualified for the 16-team group stage finals in September. .
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The United States hasn’t won a title since 2007.
“It was a tough game until the end,” Krajicek said. “They played really well in the second set and put us in a tough position.
“We were able to increase our energy in the third and serve well in important moments.”
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On Thursday, Sebastian Korda and Davis Cup debutant Chris Eubanks won a singles match.
Korda, ranked 33rd in the world, defeated Kurtiv, who is ranked 309 places below the American, with a 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4 victory in the opening match.
Eubanks then defeated No. 498-ranked Viacheslav Bielinski 6-3, 6-2.
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In addition to defending champions Italy and last year’s runners-up Australia, Great Britain and Spain have also automatically qualified for the finals.
Serbia, without Novak Djokovic, beat Slovakia 2-0.
Lukas Klein beats Miomir Kecmanovic 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 for the Slovak, while Alex Molkan beat Dusan Lajovic 4-6, 6-2, 6-0. Broke it.
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Nikola Kacic and Kecmanovic will look to revive Serbia with doubles before reverse singles.
Alexander Zverev missed Germany’s match against Hungary due to illness, and the 1-1 draw means all players will be available.
Dominik Koepfer beat Fabian Marozzan 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) before Marton Husovics beat Leonard Struff 6-3, 7-5 to level Hungary. .
In other games, Finland leads Portugal 2-0, while the games between Sweden and Brazil and the Netherlands and Switzerland both drew 1-1.
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