Two former No. 1 players in the world - Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, won their first matches at the Davis Cup Finals in Madrid. Djokovic did not face any difficulty against Yoshihito Nishioka and helped Serbia to a 2-0 win over Japan in Group A. In the first match, Filip Krajnovic also won in two sets - 6:2, 6:4 against Yuichi Sugita. The Japanese already lost to France by 1:2.
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answers for football picks he served in the first set. Djokovic made 3 breaks in the first half and 2 in the second on the way to victory, and in the match of the two veterans Janko Tipsarevich and Viktor Troitski come out later today against Ben McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama.
At the same time, Britain leads with 1-0 victories against the Netherlands in Group E thanks to Andy Murray`s rather difficult success against 179th in the world Talon Greekspoor. Murray defeated his rival 6:7 (7), 6:4, 7:6 (5) after almost 3 hours of fighting on the court at Kaha Magika.
Murray threw 12 aces, but his opponent placed exactly twice as much. There was no breakthrough in the first set, and the only mini-break came at the last point of the tiebreaker, finishing 9:7 for the Dutchman. Back in professional tennis after a serious injury, Murray found the strength to turn around, and in the first game of the second part made the first breakthrough in the match.
Greekspor returned the breakthrough in the sixth game, but immediately afterwards lost his pass again, and that proved decisive in the second set. In the crucial third, Greekspor led by 4:1, but Murray leveled for 4:4 and made it to the tiebreaker, in which the British also caught up with a lag of 1:4 to break his opponent by 7:5.
In the second game, Daniel Evans is currently playing with Robin Haase, and in pairs Andy`s brother, Jamie Murray, will be dating partner Neil Scoopsky against Wesley Kohlhof and Jean-Julien Roger.
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