With victories for
Tommy Paul,
Mackenzie McDonald and
the partnership of
Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek, they made it 3-0 that gave
them the victory in the
Davis Cup Qualifier. Denis Kudla achieved another victory in a fourth
match with the series sentenced.
In international competitions, the United States team
is always one of the most dangerous, they currently have 10 players in the top
50, and despite not being present several of their best players, they easily
beat the Uzbekistan team.
After reach the Davis Cup group stage, new US captain
David Nainkin spoke about his victory:
"It's one step at
a time. The first step is to actually qualify and that's what we've done, but
we don't really look further than that and well done to everybody that was
involved in this process and we look forward to the next steps.”
Mackenzie McDonald (63rd), who knocked out Rafael
Nadal at the
Australian Open, won his match comfortably in straight sets
against Sergey Fomin (366th) 6-4, 6-1. Then came the turn of the team's first
single player Tommy Paul (19th), who also got the victory against Khumoyun
Sultanov (480th) in straight sets (6-1, 7-6).
In the doubles, Ram and Krajicek showed their
hierarchy to go 6-2, 6-4 against Sanjar Fayziev and Fomin. With these matches
the United States advanced to the round, and Denis Kudla defeated Amir Milushev
to end the series 4-0.
David Nainkin (who replaced Mardy Fish as captain a month
ago), especially highlighted the performance in doubles: “I was excited to see
Raj and Austin play today.”
"They've practiced
well all week, they had five great days of preparation and as anticipated, they
came out really sharp and got the early break in the first set. After that, it
was like two freight trains. There was no stopping them."
Finally, the former
doubles World No. 1 highlighted the performance that the Uzbekistan team showed
despite being low ranking:
“Ranking-wise, they're
the underdogs, they're not the favorites in this match. But even in the
singles, they tried their best and they really fought until the end and that's
a pretty good quality to have. It helps you even maybe win some matches you're
not supposed to win."