Greece beaten in ATP Cup as Tsitsipas sits

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Greece severely missed Stefanos Tsitsipas successful the singles erstwhile it was beaten by Poland connected the opening time of the 16-team ATP Cup tourney connected Saturday.

The fourth-ranked Tsitsipas had to retreat with an elbow occupation up of his lucifer with ninth-ranked Hubert Hurkacz, who went connected to bushed replacement Aristotelis Thanos 6-1, 6-2 to springiness Poland an unassailable 2-0 pb aft Kamil Majchrzak had defeated Michail Pervolarakis 6-1, 6-4 earlier.

Tsitsipas watched from the squad bench, with crystal wrapped astir his close elbow, arsenic the 1,076th-ranked Thanos was outclassed by Hurkacz.

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Greece past gained immoderate consolation erstwhile Tsitsipas combined with Pervolarakis successful the doubles to flooded Szymon Walkow and Jan Zielinski 6-4, 5-7, 10-8.

Tsitsipas had an cognition successful precocious November, with a flare-up a interest up of this month's Australian Open.

“The betterment from my elbow country is connected way and contiguous was a precautionary measurement to marque definite I marque Melbourne,” Tsitsipas said. “We volition spot day-by-day, match-by-match until then.”

Argentina's Diego Schwartzman and Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut led their respective teams to comfy victories earlier connected Saturday.

Cristian Garin vs Roberto Bautista Agut: ATP Cup 2022

Argentina bushed Georgia 3-0, portion Spain easy accounted for Chile by the aforesaid borderline astatine the tourney being played crossed 2 Sydney stadiums.

The 13th-ranked Schwartzman defeated Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-1, 6-2, aft compatriot Federico Delbonis won by the aforesaid people against Aleksandre Metreveli to springiness Argentina a 2-0 pb from the singles matches.

Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni past gave the Argentines a cleanable expanse defeating Georgian brace Saba Pertseladze and Zura Tkemaladze 6-1, 6-2 successful the doubles necktie to springiness Argentina a 3-0 win.

Pablo Carreno Busta gave Spain an aboriginal pb arsenic helium rallied from being a interruption down successful some sets to decision Chile's Alejandro Tabilo 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).

Roberto Bautista Agut appeared successful fantabulous signifier arsenic helium disposed of Chile’s Cristian Garin 6-0, 6-3 to seal the necktie for Spain.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Pedro Martinez clinched a cleanable expanse for Spain with a 7-6 (3), 4-6, 10-7 triumph implicit Chile's Tomas Barrios Vera and Tabilo.

Even without Rafael Nadal, whose mentation for the Australian Open has been disrupted by a affirmative trial for coronavirus, Spain showed wherefore they are among the favored teams astatine the tournament.

“Today was a bully commencement for me, a precise coagulated game, truly happy. I similar these conditions," Bautista Agut said.

Serbia, which is without top-ranked Novak Djokovic, bushed Norway 2-1. Filip Krajinovic did treble work — teaming with Nikola Cacic to flooded Casper Ruud and Viktor Durasovic 7-6 (3), 6-3 successful the decisive doubles lucifer aft the 2 singles matches were split,

The different 8 teams statesman play Sunday: Russia vs. France, Italy vs. Australia, Canada vs. the United States and Germany vs. Britain.

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