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<\/p>\n Match Report
\n Draper leads Great Britain to victory in Davis Cup Qualifiers<\/p>\n
Former champion defeats Norway 3-0 in Oslo<\/p>\n
February 06, 2026<\/p>\n
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Jack Draper in action for Great Britain in Oslo.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Jack Draper<\/a> and Cameron Norrie<\/a> guided Great Britain to victory against Norway in the first round of the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers. On his return to action Thursday, Draper defeated Viktor Durasovic<\/a> 6-2, 6-2 before Norrie overcame Nicolai Budkov Kjaer<\/a> 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n Great Britain then moved into an unassailable 3-0 lead in the tie on Friday when Julian Cash<\/a> and Lloyd Glasspool<\/a> defeated Durasovic and Budkov Kjaer 6-2, 2-6, 7-6(5). In a tight doubles rubber, Cash and Glasspool produced their best level in the third-set tie-break, returning with aggression and serving well to triumph after one hour and 59 minutes in Oslo. The pair won seven tour-level titles together last year, including Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Draper was playing for the first time since his opening-round match at the US Open<\/a> in August against Sebastian Baez<\/a>. The lefty rose to a career-high No. 4 in the PIF ATP Rankings last season, lifting his first ATP Masters 1000 trophy in Indian Wells. The 24-year-old had been sidelined with a bruised bone in his service arm. Casper Ruud<\/a> was not playing for Norway following the birth of his first child last week.<\/p>\n Great Britain will compete in the second round of the Davis Cup Qualifiers in September. The Final 8 will then take place in Bologna in November, with eight nations competing to lift the trophy in a six-day event. Italy is the three-time defending champion.<\/p>\n Japan’s two-day tie against Austria started on Friday. Yosuke Watanuki<\/a> beat Sebastian Ofner<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 to give Japan the lead, before Jurij Rodionov<\/a> downed Shintaro Mochizuki<\/a> 6-4, 7-5 to level for Austria.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Draper leads Great Britain to victory in Davis Cup Qualifiers Former champion defeats Norway 3-0 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-453201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453201","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=453201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n