Tennis news: Robin Soderling hands Sweden a lead; Mardy Fish aids United States
The world number five Swede Robin Soderling recorded his eleventh victory in fourteen singles matches on Friday to leave his country at 1-1 overnight versus his Italian tennis foe, Potito Starace in the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
The Italian tennis player, Potito Starace who plays more comfortably on clay surface did well to get the better of Andreas Vinciguerra from Sweden in a total of three sets. The final match score was 6-2, 6-2, and 6-2. The match concluded in a time period
of one hour and forty four minutes at the newly built Sparbanken Lidkoping Arena, before Robin, who made his way into the quarter-final round of the United States Open tennis tournament this year in New York, smashed a total of five aces to outlast Fabio Fognini
from Italy in a three-setter clash. The final match score was 6-1, 6-3, and 6-2. Soderling claimed victory in a time period of seventy four minutes.
In another action at the Plaza de Toros La Santamaria in Colombia, the professional tennis ace Mardy Fish, from the United States of America registered the twenty first victory of his professional life in his 50th clay surface clash on Friday,
guiding the American side to secure a lead of 1-0 over Colombia, after he managed to topple Alejandro Falla in a total of five sets. The final match score was 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. The match concluded in a time period of four hours. However, Santiago Giraldo
boosted Colombia's spirits by getting the better of his American tennis foe, Sam Querrey in a match that lasted for a total of one hour and thirty five minutes to equal the play-off tie at 1-1. The final match score was 6-2, 6-4, and 7-5.
Mardy, who has improved his world rankings to as high as number nineteen by the Association of tennis professionals this season, smashed a total of eight aces and forty seven winners. The American is now 4-1 in five set clashes this season (6-7 in career)
and it was his thirty eighth victory of the year, one off career-high back in 2003. The United States of America has not been dropped out from the World Group since 1988.
Germany, on the other hand, also manages to secure a lead of 2-0 against South Africa, as Florian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber handed their side a lead of 2-0 in their play-off tie versus South Africa in Stuttgart. Florian converted a total of six break
points out of fourteen to knock down Izak Van Der Merwe in a total of four sets. The final match score was 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(6). The match concluded in a time period of two hours and forty minutes at TC Weissenhof Stuttgart in Germany. The world number forty
one, Philipp claimed a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win over Rik De Voest in one hour and fifty nine minutes.
The Romanian tennis star, Victor Hanescu also brushed aside Ecuadorian Ivan Endara in a total of three sets on Friday. The final match score was 6-2, 6-2, and 6-2. Adrian Ungur, who is contesting in his second Davis Cup competition, battled back to defeat
Giovanni Lapentti in a five-setter epic. The final match score was 6-7(2), 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, and 6-1. As a result, Romania is now ahead of Ecuador with an ideal lead of 2-0 at the Centrul National de Tenis in Bucharest.
“I am really glad with the way I served in today’s match,” said the world number fifty four Victor. “I made use of the Kicker a great deal in the match. It was a quick clash, three sets, and I am happy that I didn’t spend a lot of time on the court.”
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