For the sixth time in history and for the first time since 2011, Spain on Sunday, lifting the prestigious Davis Cup trophy in tennis.
It was a fact after a cup of Canada, who have never won the tournament. Spain won the first two singles, and thus was doublekampen redundant.
the Davis Cup was played after a completely new format, where the world’s 18 best nations tørnede together over a week in Madrid, and Spain managed thus to exploit the home advantage to the full.
It came to pass with the last, Rafael Nadal, in the lead. He secured the crucial 2-0-lead Sunday by beating Denis Shapovalov with 6-3, 7-6.
The 20-year-old Shapovalov was down with breakbold by the post 0-1 and 1-2, and at the position 2-3 was no more. Nadal broke for 4-2 and spill since illegal bahis the set home after 36 minutes.
In the second set, hold down both the serv all the way, and so it had to be as so often before in this weekend’s matches resort to the tiebreak.
Here played Nadal for two matchbolde by the post 6-4, but Shapovalov fending off both and got myself the sætbold at 7-6. But Nadal took the next three points and closed the therefore, the fight.
In the final, the first single had the world number nine, Roberto Bautista Agut, defeated the 19-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime, which is number 21 in the world, with the digits 7-6, 6-3.
Both were unerringly confident in own servepartier in the first set, and Aliassime was the only one to get a simple breakbold on the way to the predictable tiebreak. Here was Agut best. Behind 2-3 snatched the he five points in a row and tiebreaken 7-3.
It gave the spaniard the momentum to bring himself on 3-0 in the force of a single servegennembrud. Auger-Aliassime broke back for 2-3, but only to lose its next serveparti to 2-4.
Agut spill since the set home with a clean lot, before he left the stage to Mcilroy, who did the work finished.
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