Slovakia dumped out a Serbia facet lacking 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, profitable all 4 matches contested on the indoor clay in Kraljevo to achieve the group stage of the brand new format for the primary time.
They’d misplaced their earlier 4 qualifiers, however Lukas Klein and Igor Zelenay gave them an unassailable lead with victory within the doubles as Slovakia went on to attain a well-known 4-0 win towards the 2010 winners.
Brazil additionally reached the group phases for the primary time with a 3-1 victory over Sweden, their third win of this 12 months’s match after beating China and Denmark in World Group I to achieve the qualifiers.
America received by with a 4-0 victory over Ukraine in a tie that was performed on impartial floor in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram claimed the decisive level of their doubles match towards Illya Beloborodko and Oleksii Krutykh as 32-time winners USA bid for a primary Davis Cup title since 2007.
4 ties went the gap as Germany beat Hungary 3-2 and the Netherlands overcame Switzerland by the identical rating. Additionally profitable 3-2 had been Argentina and Chile, who beat Kazakhstan and Peru respectively.
The Dutch facet received the ultimate two singles contests to come back from 2-1 down towards Switzerland. Eight of the 11 units throughout the match went to tie-breaks, with Botic van de Zandschulp clinching the decisive rubber 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 towards Marc-Andrea Huesler in entrance of a partisan dwelling crowd.
World quantity 24 Jan-Lennard Struff sealed Germany’s victory within the remaining singles match in Hungary, profitable 6-3 6-2 towards Mate Valkusz, who’s ranked outdoors the world’s prime 200.
Argentina finally received 3-2 towards Kazakhstan. Straight-set victories for Timofel Skatov over Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Francisco Cerundolo took the conflict to a decider, the place a 6-4 3-6 7-6 (8-6) win for Sebastian Baez towards Dmitry Popko booked Argentina’s spot within the group stage.
In Santiago, Chile fought again from 2-1 down towards Peru to win their qualifier. Singles wins for Nicolas Jarry and Alejandro Tabilo noticed them seal the ultimate place in September’s group stage.
Earlier, there have been 4-0 wins for France in Chinese language Taipei and Czech Republic at dwelling to Israel, whereas Canada overcame South Korea 3-1 in Montreal.
Finland made the group phases for the second 12 months working with a 3-1 victory at dwelling to Portugal.
Belgium’s Zizou Bergs adopted up his shock opening victory over Croatia’s former world quantity three Marin Cilic to seal an general 3-1 victory with a decisive second singles success in Varazdin, beating dwelling hope Duje Ajdukovic 6-1 7-5.
