Japan has shown their class in a 3-1 win over New Zealand in their Davis Cup World Group One tie in Auckland.<\/p>\n
Trailing 2-0 after losing both singles matches on Saturday, New Zealand introduced a glimmer of hope when Ajeet Rai and Finn Reynolds beat Yosuke Watanuki and Takeru Yuzuki 7-5 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n
However, the outcome was decided in the first reverse singles match between the countries’ respective No.1 players at The Trusts Arena indoor venue.<\/p>\n
World No.96 Sho Shimabukuro then showed his quality, seeing off 500th-ranked Anton Shepp 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n
It completed a dominant weekend for Shimabukuro, who beat James Watt in three sets on the opening day after Shepp had gone down to Rei Sakamoto in straight sets.<\/p>\n
Defeat means New Zealand drop into a World Group One playoff against yet-to-be-determined opponents early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan has shown their class in a 3-1 win over New Zealand in their Davis Cup World Group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-606030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}