The United States cruised to victory in Hungary on Sunday in the first round of Davis Cup qualifying with France also joining them as 28-time champions Australia shockingly crashed out to Ecuador. Elsewhere, Belgium, Czech Republic and India all won to reach round two.<\/p>\n
In Tatabanya, Hungary, Christian Harrison<\/a>, the Australian Open doubles champion, paired with Austin Krajicek<\/a> to claim the clinching point for record 32-time winners the US with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Fabian Marozsan<\/a> and Zsombor Piros<\/a>.<\/p>\n Harrison, making his Davis Cup debut, said: “I had such a good time this week, I already forgot about” the Australian Open, as the Americans won 4-0.<\/p>\n The United States will travel to Czech Republic for a place in the Final 8.<\/p>\n France progressed 3-1 at home to Slovakia after Arthur Rinderknech<\/a> sealed the vital victory 7-5, 7-6 (6) against Alex Molcan<\/a> in the second match of the day following Benjamin Bonzi<\/a> and Pierre-Hugues Herbert<\/a>‘s doubles win.<\/p>\n “It was a great doubles match,” Rinderknech said.<\/p>\n “They played very well. It allowed me to go onto the court with a lot of confidence. I needed it because Molcan was really strong today.”<\/p>\n France’s next tie will be a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada.<\/p>\n In Quito, Ecuador seized an unassailable lead against Australia as Gonzalo Escobar<\/a> and Diego Hidalgo<\/a> beat Rinky Hijikata<\/a> and Jordan Thompson<\/a> 7-6 (5), 6-4 to put the hosts 3-0 ahead.<\/p>\n Ecuador will seek to continue their giant-killing exploits in the next round away to Great Britain.<\/p>\n Despite missing world number six Alex De Minaur<\/a>, Australia still seemed to have enough on paper to win the tie with top 100-ranked James Duckworth<\/a> and 2024 US Open men’s doubles champion Thompson.<\/p>\n After Alvaro Guillen<\/a> Meza had beaten Hijikata in three sets though, world number 257 Andres Andrade<\/a> defeated Duckworth 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 to tee up the upset on clay.<\/p>\n Roared on by their fans in Busan, South Korea came from behind to beat Argentina 3-2.<\/p>\n After Argentina took the lead with a doubles victory, Kwon Soon-woo<\/a> – ranked 248 spots lower than his opponent – beat Thiago Agustin Tirante<\/a> in three sets to force a decider, which Chung Hyeon<\/a> duly won.<\/p>\n The Koreans will next play India, who edged the Netherlands 3-2 in Bengaluru as 465th-ranked Dhakshineswar Suresh<\/a> bested world number 162 Guy Den Ouden<\/a> 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the decider.<\/p>\n In Plovdiv, Belgium swept aside hosts Bulgaria 4-0 to set up a meeting with Austria.<\/p>\n The Czechs meanwhile beat visiting Sweden 3-1, with Petr Nouza<\/a> and Patrik Rikl<\/a>‘s opening doubles win enough to ensure their country’s progression.<\/p>\n Germany, Austria, Chile, Croatia, Britain and Canada had locked up round two qualifying places earlier in the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States cruised to victory in Hungary on Sunday in the first round of Davis Cup qualifying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}