Germany powered through the first round of Davis Cup qualifying on Saturday with a 4-0 victory over Peru, while Croatia fought past Denmark with a 3-1 win.<\/p>\n
Despite missing national number one Alexander Zverev<\/a> in Dusseldorf, Germany held an overnight 2-0 lead in the tie thanks to Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> and Jan-Lennard Struff<\/a>.<\/p>\n The doubles duo of Kevin Krawietz<\/a> and Tim Puetz<\/a> wrapped up Germany’s spot in round two of qualifying with a 6-0, 2-6, 6-4<\/a> over Ignacio Buse<\/a> and Arklon Huertas del Pino<\/a>.<\/p>\n World number 196 Justin Engel<\/a>, aged 18, then defeated Gonzalo Bueno<\/a> 6-3, 6-7(4)<\/a>, retired with the final singles tie not being played.<\/p>\n Dino Prizmic<\/a> secured the decisive win 7-6(5), 7-6(2)<\/a> against Elmer Moller<\/a> as Croatia bested Denmark 3-1.<\/p>\n With play restarting in Varazdin locked at 1-1 overnight, Nikola Mektic<\/a> and Mate Pavic<\/a> eased to a 6-2, 7-5<\/a> win over Johannes Ingildsen<\/a> and Carl Emil Overbeck<\/a> to set up the win for the hosts.<\/p>\n Austria edged a tight encounter with Japan in Tokyo, 3-2, thanks to a clutch 5-7, 6-1, 6-0<\/a> victory for 170th-ranked Jurij Rodionov<\/a> against former world number 24 Yoshihito Nishioka<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It’s a team competition,” Rodionov said. “Everyone has to do their part and I’m happy I was able to get the two points for my team and decide the tie for Austria.”<\/p>\n USA lead hosts Hungary 2-0 ahead of Sunday’s deciding three matches courtesy of a straight-sets win for Tommy Paul<\/a> over Zsombor Piros<\/a>, before Ethan Quinn<\/a> thrillingly beat Fabian Marozsan<\/a> 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(11)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, France are locked 1-1 with Slovakia and Belgium lead Bulgaria 2-0.<\/p>\n The winner of the France-Slovakia tie will face Canada, who won the last two singles matches on Saturday to beat Brazil 3-2.<\/p>\n The teams had finished day one in Vancouver tied at 1-1. Brazil won Saturday’s doubles but Canada rallied as Gabriel Diallo<\/a> beat Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida<\/a> 3-6, 6-1, 7-6(4)<\/a> and Liam Draxl<\/a> beat Gustavo Heide<\/a> 6-3, 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany powered through the first round of Davis Cup qualifying on Saturday with a 4-0 victory over Peru,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-468229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}