{"id":154887,"date":"2025-09-13T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154887\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:49:07","slug":"cameron-norrie-seals-great-britains-place-in-2026-davis-cup-qualifiers-davis-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154887\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie seals Great Britain\u2019s place in 2026 Davis Cup qualifiers | Davis Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Norrie defeated Olaf Pieczkowski of Poland 6-4, 6-4 to secure Great Britain\u2019s place in next year\u2019s Davis Cup<\/a> qualifiers. Norrie\u2019s assured victory over the world No 484 established an unassailable 3-1 lead for Great Britain after they were forced to recover from the setback of starting the day with an unexpected defeat.<\/p>\n

Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, the Wimbledon doubles champions<\/a>, were upset 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8) by Karol Drzewiecki and Jan Zielinski to present Norrie with the task of overcoming Pieczkowski to avoid a decider on the final day.<\/p>\n

Victory in the best-of-five Group One tie means Great Britain, who were missing Jack Draper because of injury<\/a>, go into February\u2019s first round.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing is that we got the job done,\u201d said Great Britain\u2019s captain, Leon Smith. \u201cWe did a very professional job. It was good to get Arthur Fery his debut and it was a winning one, which is a great experience for him. Then you have Cam Norrie in your team, who is so rich in experience. We didn\u2019t drop a set in the singles, which shows the respect we gave the opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can look forward now to the draw for next year. I sense there\u2019s an appetite for the players to play, which is really good, so hopefully we can go with a strong team and try to go as far as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany reached the last eight with a 4-0 rout of Japan, France secured a convincing win over Croatia and Argentina qualified after knocking out last year\u2019s finalists, the Netherlands. Austria qualified with a 3-2 win over Hungary, while Belgium and Denmark took commanding 2-0 leads over Australia and Spain.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s Justin Engel has a bottle of water poured over him after beating Japan\u2019s Rei Sakamoto. Photograph: Manami Yamada\/Reuters<\/p>\n

After Germany took a 2-0 lead on Friday in Tokyo, their victory was completed when Kevin Krawietz and Tim P\u00fctz saved three set points in the second set to beat Yosuke Watanuki and Takeru Yuzuki 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the doubles. Justin Engel then beat Rei Sakamoto 6-3, 6-7 (2), 10-7.<\/p>\n

Germany, last year\u2019s semi-finalists, were the first team through the qualifiers, joining the hosts, Italy, in the culminating round set for November in Bologna.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s captain, Michael Kohlmann, said: \u201cRight now, the locker room is dancing and singing. We\u2019re looking forward to Bologna.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Argentina qualified when Andr\u00e9s Molteni and Horacio Zeballos beat the Dutch duo of Sander Arends and Botic van de Zandschulp 6-3, 7-5 to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in Groningen.<\/p>\n

Hungary, who had lost both their matches to Austria on Friday, fought back with back-to-back wins in Debrecen. Fabian Marozsan and Zsombor Piros edged the Austrian pair of Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) before Piros beat Lukas Neumayer in a singles match to bring Hungary level at 2-2. Austria won the tie in the fifth match, with Jurij Rodionov earning a dominant 6-2, 6-1 victory over Marton Fucsovics.<\/p>\n

France secured their place in the final eight as Corentin Moutet beat Marin Cilic, securing a 3-1 victory over Croatia in Osijek.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s quarter-finalists Spain are in danger of elimination as Denmark took a 2-0 lead in Marbella, with the world No 11, Holger Rune, beating Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta and Elmer Mller defeating Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie defeated Olaf Pieczkowski of Poland 6-4, 6-4 to secure Great Britain\u2019s place in next year\u2019s Davis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-154887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}