Katie Boulter and Cameron Norrie helped Britain beat host Australia on the opening day of the United Cup tennis match, whereas Spain gained the decisive blended double to edge Brazil 2-1.
The match involving blended groups from 18 nations is being performed in Perth and Sydney as a warmup forward of the Australian Open, with a format that includes a males’s and girls’s singles match performed forward of a blended doubles.
Boulter gave Britain a decisive 2-0 lead within the opening Group C match in Perth when she beat Ajla Tomljanovic 6-2, 6-4. Norrie had earlier silenced a packed residence crowd with a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (2) win over Alex de Minaur.
“I actually needed to dig deep and play very courageous in that third set,” Norrie stated. “It’s all the time robust enjoying Alex. He is an effective good friend of mine and we all the time have battles. I knew I must run quite a bit right this moment and I did. It was an amazing environment.” Matthew Ebden and Storm Hunter gave Australia a comfort win once they teamed as much as win the blended doubles 6-3, 7-6 (5) towards Boulter and Neal Skupski.
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Earlier within the opening Group A match in Sydney, Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Sara Sorribes Tormo teamed up within the decisive blended doubles to beat the Brazilian pair of Beatriz Haddad Maia and Marcelo Melo 6-4, 7-5.
Haddad Maia had overwhelmed Sorribes Tormo 7-6 (1), 6-2 after Davidovich Fokina earned a 6-4, 6-0 win over Thiago Seyboth Wild.
Prime-ranked Iga Swiatek is representing Poland within the match, whereas males’s No. 1 and defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic has arrived to symbolize Serbia.
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Serbia will tackle China on Sunday in Perth and the Czech Republic on Tuesday within the group stage, with Djokovic set to face 58th-ranked Zhang Zhizhen and No. 31 Jiri Lehecka in his singles matches.
Djokovic gained three Grand Slam singles titles this yr, lacking out on solely Wimbledon, the place he misplaced to Carlos Alcaraz within the closing in 5 units. He has gained the Australian Open a document 10 instances amongst his document 24 Grand Slam singles titles.
On his arrival in Perth, he reiterated he has no plans to retire.
“I hope it’s not (the) final (time), to be sincere. I imply I all the time look ahead coming again to Australia,” Djokovic stated. “I all the time felt like I performed my greatest tennis through the years (right here) and had nice help.” Djokovic final visited Perth in 2013 when he performed on the Hopman Cup.
“It feels nice, it’s been some time since I used to be right here final,” Djokovic stated. “I keep in mind each single time I performed in Perth it was nice attendance, folks love tennis, folks love sport in Australia typically. So I don’t count on something much less this time, and I’m positive it’s going to be a blast for all of us.”