ATP Cup: Dan Evans wins opening singles tie as Great Britain face Germany
Dan Evans gets Great Britain’s ATP Cup campaign off to a winning start with a straight-set victory in the opening singles tie against Germany.
Dan Evans gets Great Britain’s ATP Cup campaign off to a winning start with a straight-set victory in the opening singles tie against Germany.
John Peers and Luke Saville completed the Australian turnaround Sunday at ATP Cup to give the home nation lift-off in Group B in Sydney.
The pair downed Matteo Berrettini and Simone Bolelli 6-3, 7-5 to secure a 2-1 victory for Australia against Italy in front of a lively crowd that was fully engaged following Alex de Minaur’s win over Berrettini in the second singles rubber.
Peers and Saville rose to the task throughout against the Italian duo, saving a set point on serve at 4-5 in the second set as they won the last nine points of the match to triumph after 84 minutes.
Australia will next face reigning champion Russia on Tuesday, while Italy plays France, with both ties on Qudos Bank Arena.
Photo Credit: Peter Staples/ATP Tour
Earlier, home favourite De Minaur lifted the roof off Ken Rosewall Arena Sunday when he kept alive Australia’s opening tie hopes against Italy at ATP Cup.
The 22-year-old earned his fifth Top 10 win of his career as he upset World No. 7 Berrettini 6-3, 7-6(4) in Group B.
“This court brings out the best in me,” an emotional De Minaur said. Reflecting on a tough 2021, he added, “It’s not about how many times you get knocked down. It’s about how many times you get knocked down and get back up.”
The 22-year-old demonstrated great agility and grit in his first match of the season and recovered from squandering a 5-3 lead in the second set to triumph after 86 minutes, levelling their ATP Head2Head series at 1-1.
“My whole career I have had a couple of setbacks but look, I am back,” De Minaur said. “I worked really hard to be here, I am in the best shape of my life and I am ready to have a big year.”
De Minaur was impressive on return throughout, stepping inside the baseline to make good contact from Berrettini’s delivery as he dictated points with his powerful forehand.
The World No. 34, who won two tour-level titles in 2021, is making his third ATP Cup appearance, earning victories against Alexander Zverev and Denis Shapovalov in 2020.
Earlier, Jannik Sinner had produced a comprehensive performance on his ATP Cup debut to give Italy a 1-0 lead against home nation Australia.
The 20-year-old struck his groundstrokes powerfully and dominated the longer rallies to defeat Max Purcell 6-1, 6-3 in 64 minutes on Ken Rosewall Arena to earn his first victory of the year.
“It was a great match from my side,” Sinner said in his on-court interview. “I am very happy to have the first point for Team Italy and hopefully Matteo can finish it today. I felt very, very solid. I knew I had to play solid from the baseline because when he comes to the net it is very, very tough to pass him, so I tried to play deep. For the first match of the year, it could not have gone any better.”
Sinner enjoyed an impressive 2021 season, earning four tour-level titles and cracking the Top 10 in the ATP Rankings. The 2019 Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals champion, who struck 13 winners and committed just three unforced errors against Purcell, is Italy’s No. 2 singles player at the 16-team event and will next play Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech on Tuesday.
ATP Cup format sees the No. 2 singles played first, with the No. 1 singles following. Doubles, with no-ad scoring and a match tie-break in place of a third set, is the final rubber of the tie.
Semi-final Qualifying Scenarios
Group B
If Australia defeats Russia and Italy defeats France, Australia wins the group and advances to the SF
If Russia defeats Australia and France defeats Italy, Russia wins the group and advances to the SF
Group C
No team can clinch the group by winning their next tie. USA and Great Britain winning their next tie would set up a winner takes all on day 6.
Daniel Evans proved the inspiration for Great Britain on Sunday when he won two matches, including a deciding doubles with Jamie Murray, for a 2-1 victory over Germany in the Group C tie at the ATP Cup.
Evans, who first beat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 2 singles match, returned to the court at Qudos Bank Arena following Alexander Zverev’s 7-6(2), 6-1 win over Britain’s Cameron Norrie, to partner Murray to a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Kevin Krawietz and Zverev in 78 minutes.
Great Britain will next challenge Canada on Tuesday, while Germany meets the United States. Both ties will be contested on Ken Rosewall Arena.
Evans ensured Great Britain got off to a perfect start, with the World No. 25 mixing up his tactics to keep Struff on the back foot. “It’s a good way to start 2022,” said Evans. “I’ve been practising well, but I didn’t expect to play the match this well.”
Evans completely dominated to extend his perfect record to 3-0 against Struff. The first set lasted 32 minutes, as Evans hit 12 winners and committed just four unforced errors. From 1-1 in the first set, the 31-year-old secured nine straight games to lead 4-0 in the second set. Evans played with high energy, nullified Struff’s powerful serve and got returns low over the net when the German serve-volleyed.
Zverev levelled the tie to ensure a doubles decider. The World No. 3 saved one set point in the first set to beat No. 12-ranked Briton Norrie in 87 minutes.
Having been in control on serve, Zverev dropped his first-serve percentage at 4-5 in the first set to gift Norrie a set point at 30/40. Zverev saved it with a solid first delivery and approach winner, then applied pressure to force Norrie to save a break point in the next game. The German, who beat World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 2-ranked Daniil Medvedev in his final two matches of the 2021 season for the Nitto ATP Finals crown, raised his game in the tie-break that ended with a Norrie backhand into the net.
After 54 minutes of high-quality tennis, Norrie came close to breaking Zverev in the first game of the second set. But, unable to convert, Zverev responded to secure service breaks in the fourth and sixth games. He has now won 13 of his past 15 matches. “The first match of the year is never going to be the best match of you’re life,” said Zverev. “But I’m pretty happy as I did my job. We’re here to try and win.”
The ATP Cup format sees the No. 2 singles played first, followed by the No. 1 singles and doubles.
Unheralded Russian Roman Safiullin has seized his opportunity to play a starring role at ATP Cup, rallying from a set down to give the defending champion a 1-0 lead on Day 2 in Sydney.
The 24-year-old World No. 167 Safiullin, who got his opportunity to play following the withdrawals of Andrey Rublev and Aslan Karatsev, raised his game to topple Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 in the No. 2 singles.
World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev now has the opportunity to clinch the tie for Russia when he meets Ugo Humbert in the No. 1 singles.
Safiullin came up clutch in pressure moments, saving 15 of 19 break points he faced in the two-hour, 26-minute contest.
“It feels great to win the first match, to get the point for the team and now we wait for Daniil to go out and show his tennis,” Safiullin said. “The second set was really tight and I tried to make as many balls as I could and put pressure on him.
“Before the match Daniil said to go out and play with no pressure, just to play my best and fight for every point.”
ATP Cup format sees the No. 2 singles played first, with the No. 1 singles following. Doubles, with no-ad scoring and a match tie-break in place of a third set, is the final rubber of the tie.
John Isner made a quick start for the United States at the ATP Cup on Sunday when he defeated Canada’s Brayden Schnur 6-1, 6-4 in 66 minutes.
The American had to scramble at the last moment when he learned he would play Schnur instead of Shapovalov, who withdrew from the tie’s No. 2 singles match due to fatigue. But the 36-year-old took care of business with a comprehensive performance in which he saved the only break point he faced.
“I surprised myself with how well I played out here,” Isner said in his on-court interview. “You always work hard in the offseason, but you never really know what could happen in that first match of the year.”
Isner broke twice in the first set and used his booming serve to capitalise on the advantage. The American never looked back, hitting 10 aces and winning 46 per cent of his return points in his victory inside Qudos Bank Arena.
“I actually really like this court. It’s not too fast, which I prefer. It gives me a little time to swing out on my shots being so big. That helps me out a lot,” Isner said. “We’re off to a good start, hopefully we can keep this going.”
Did You Know?
This was Isner’s first win at the ATP Cup. Two years ago, he represented his country at the team event, but did not earn a victory.
Canadian Denis Shapovalov has withdrawn from his opening singles match of the season on Sunday at the ATP Cup due to fatigue. Brayden Schnur stepped in to face John Isner of the United States.
Shapovalov is still getting up to speed after testing positive for Covid-19 upon his arrival in Sydney. The 22-year-old followed all protocols including isolating in his hotel room before being released upon completion of those protocols.
“I’m disappointed not to be able to play the first match, but I just didn’t feel ready physically yet, so we did what is best for the team,” Shapovalov said.
The lefty is joined on Team Canada by Felix Auger-Aliassime, Brayden Schnur and Steven Diez. It is Shapovalov’s third appearance in the ATP Cup.
Stefanos Tsitsipas withdraws from his ATP Cup singles match because of an elbow issue but returns to play in Greece’s opening doubles win.
“Gee-Gee-El! Gee-Gee-El!” used to be a common sound at the Australian Open. Whenever Guillermo Garcia Lopez set foot in the season’s first Grand Slam in January, a group of about 15 local fans followed him wherever he went in Melbourne Park. They would chant his initials every time he played. However, those fans received some bad news for 2022; he will not be back to play in Australia. The reason? The 38-year-old Spaniard is hanging up his racket.
“After my first win at the Australian Open (v. World No. 5 Carlos Moya) in 2005, a group of Australian guys started coming to watch me train,” Garcia Lopez told ATPTour.com. “Whenever I played there were 15 people with a photo of me printed on their T-shirts. The people are very lively there and they made a lot of noise in the matches. It’s funny, because they came out of nowhere and followed me at every match.”
‘GGL, you have to come again this year.’
‘No, no, I won’t be going anymore.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘I’m retiring.’
This is how they discovered that their hero is saying adios to professional tennis. He does so with five ATP Tour titles under his belt: Kitzbühel 2009, Bangkok 2010, Casablanca 2014, Zagreb 2015 and Bucharest 2015, and with a total of 297 wins from 654 matches on Tour, allowing him to peak at No. 23 in the ATP Rankings.
Apart from the trophies, five memories from his career are eternally etched into his mind. The first of them came in 2005, 17 years ago. He was still yet to break into the Top 100 and Chennai was the first event on the schedule. Only Moya was able to stop him, beating him 4-6, 6-2, 6-7(2) in the semi-finals. A few weeks later, having come through qualifying, he would face the same opponent in the second round of the Australian Open.
“That’s where things clicked in my career. I’d had the experience of being close to beating him a few weeks before and, although it’s not the same as playing in a Grand Slam, I knew it could happen,” reveals García Lopez. “I had a good match, maybe things didn’t go so well for him, and that day I realised that I could be a professional and have a brilliant career if I continued on that path.” Garcia Lopez won 7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
“I achieved my goal of reaching the Top 100, it was the first time I’d beaten a Top 10 player and, also, it was Moya, who was a legend in our country. I thought I had achieved something very good and if I kept that up I could do great things,” the Spaniard admits of his first big win.
Once Garcia Lopez had established himself as one of the Top 100 player in the ATP Rankings, he was consistent enough in the following years to move into the Top 50, where he would enjoy another unforgettable day. On February 3, 2006, he defeated Andre Agassi in Delray Beach, 6-4, 6-2, “I beat him on hard court and in the USA. I played great in that match.”
Then in 2009 Garcia Lopez experienced another career-defining day. In Kitzbühel, he won his first title, beating Julien Benneteau 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-3 in the final, another of his unforgettable moments. “It was incredible,” he says of a week in which he also saw off Bjorn Phau, Martín Vasallo Arguello, Victor Hanescu and Mikhail Youzhny.
But if there was one victory that catapulted him into the elite, it came in the semi-finals in Bangkok against the then World No. 1 Rafael Nadal in October 2010, 2-6, 7-6(3), 6-3. “I’d achieved one of my biggest goals, because I beat a world number one, who was also Nadal, and who had just won his first US Open,” Garcia Lopez said. “It was amazing. He was playing really well at that time.”
He made the most of the occasion by claiming his second title, beating Jarkko Nieminen 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the final. “It gave me huge confidence because I thought that I could aim high and that my game was much better than just the Top 50, which was where I was at the time. And in the next tournaments I had great results.” Garcia Lopez added. He strung together quarter-finals in Tokyo and at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Shanghai to end the season as the World No. 33.
“Beating Nadal means that people are more aware of you, but really the news was that he was beaten by Guillermo Garcia,” he says of his victory. However, only a few months later, on 21 February 2011, he would reach his peak in the ATP Rankings at No. 23.
At the time, he was one of 14 Spaniards in the Top 100, with nine in the Top 50; Nadal (No. 1), David Ferrer (No. 6), Fernando Verdasco (No. 9), Nicolas Almagro (No. 13), García Lopez (No. 23), Albert Montanes (No. 25), Tommy Robredo (No. 29), Juan Carlos Ferrero (No. 34) and Feliciano Lopez (No. 41).
All of them forged impressive careers in the shadow of the incomparable success of Nadal. “In Spain we’ve been lucky to have one of the best players in history. It has been very good for Spanish tennis, it’s a source of pride for the country, for the people and something for everyone to follow, but on the other hand it’s true that it has meant that others’ careers are not valued as much as they should be,” Garcia Lopez said.
Finally, among his greatest memories is a match that was not a win, but feels as if it were. It came in the second round of Wimbledon in 2005, the first time he ever faced Novak Djokovic. This is how he remembers it: “I was winning two-sets-to-love, at 5-4 and match point at 40/30. I hit a good serve, then I had a three-quarter court forehand and I played a winner across the other side. He didn’t chase it, the line judge called it in and Djokovic took off his sweatband and came to the net to shake hands. I celebrated as if I had won the match.”
To his astonishment though, the match was not over. “I realised the umpire had overruled and called it out. We went to deuce. I lost it a little bit then, he broke my serve and we went 5-5. I broke him back to go 6-5 up, and 40/0. I had three more match points. He defended them and I ended up losing 3-6, 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(3), 6-4. It was a match that I lost, but I count it as a win in my head.”
This is the story of the kid from La Roda who used to knock up against the wall in an empty room in his house and one day achieved his dream of becoming a professional tennis player. So goes the legend of “Gee-Gee-El”.
Roberto Bautista Agut has never been in a rush. The Spaniard, one of the most consistent players on Tour, broke into the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings at 24 years old. His journey has been a steady one, completing each phase with measured aplomb. Now, with an already-impressive career under his belt, he is looking to prolong his prowess on Tour.
The Castellon native will embark on the 2022 season having ended his professional relationship with Pepe Vendrell, his coach for the past 11 years, during which he made his way into the elite. With Vendrell by his side, Bautista Agut has produced the most impressive moments of his success-packed career: his nine ATP Tour titles, his Grand Slam semi-final [Wimbledon in 2019], winning the Davis Cup and playing at the Olympic Games, among many other milestones.
“It’s a moment you never see coming,” admits Bautista Agut to ATPTour.com. “Pepe and I have practically been one person for all this time. We were by each other’s sides for many years and I’ve enjoyed some of the best moments of my career with him in my corner. It’s a big change, especially at first. You have some well-drilled routines, you’re really used to certain things, the way you work with a person.”
Bautista Agut will start this new phase of his career with a new formula, bringing Daniel Gimeno-Traver and Tomas Carbonell into his team, who will split the weeks between them throughout the season. “I believe in a dual team. It’s a very demanding sport for just one coach and I think splitting the weeks is the best way,” he explains.
“Dani has started out very keen and excited. I have approached it with the same attitude and I feel very happy. Dani is great, a very good guy,” Bautista Agut, who is in the midst of an intense preseason in Castellon with the man from Nules, added. “We already had a good relationship off the court. Now I guess the relationship will be even stronger.”
The bond between the two Castellon men is a strong one, and Bautista Agut will be hoping that trust provides a driving force to help him maintain his best tennis in the season during which he will turn 34.
“We’ve met up quite a lot, we’ve even played each other in the odd match,” Bautista Agut recounts. “We’ve played doubles tournaments together. Dani is a player who has had a very long career. He’s someone who has a lot of experience after being a good player. He has a different background to Pepe, who has been fantastic and fundamental for my career. Dani will tell me new things, he’ll help both technically and tactically. They are both quite different. Also, I’m also going to be with Tomas this year. I’d worked with him before, we know each other and it will be important to get his advice.”
Bautista Agut is looking to get the ball rolling again after his 2021 season came to an abrupt end. When he was ready to lead out the Spanish team in the Davis Cup finals, the World No. 19 had to withdraw from the event in Madrid due to an abdominal injury that forced him to be cautious and take a step back.
“Injuries are like accidents, they happen when you least expect it,” he explains. “It was a shame, but it didn’t hold me back much. Luckily it wasn’t very serious, but a tear means you have to stop everything. I couldn’t train for 15 days, although a week after the tear I started working in the gym. Now I’ve been doing fitness and tennis for 10 days. But I’m happy and excited and keen to play next year.”
The 2022 season presents a huge challenge for Bautista Agut. The elite of the game is packed with young talent and the average age of the Top 10 at the end of the year was 25.6, the youngest since the 2009 season. What does a player like Bautista Agut, who will be celebrating his 34th birthday in April, need to maintain his place among the best players in the world?
“You have to keep the flame burning,” the Spaniard said. “Personally I think you have to nurture your passion, take care of it. After what happened at the Davis Cup I had three days of holiday then I started to work straight away. I’m not short on desire! I’m looking forward to having a good year next year and to continuing to compete at the top.”
The Spaniard, who will compete in the ATP Cup in Sydney and the Australian Open to kick off his 2022 season, is in no doubt about what he wants from the new year.
“Firstly, to have a consistent year,” says the World No. 19, who has finished the past eight seasons inside the Top 25 in the ATP Rankings. “I’d like to complete the year without any frights or injuries. My second wish is to be able to enjoy tennis and the level of my play. To come off court and feel good about myself and the standard of my game.
“To do that, you have to have a lot of desire, to be very professional, train every day with a goal. There is a key expression that I like to repeat to myself: I have to live and breathe tennis. This sport demands a lot. There has been a change of generation, there are very young people that are already at the top with a different style of tennis to that of a few years ago. Facing that is extra motivation for me. I’m happy to be there for another year and to fight for the top positions again as I have done in recent years.”
Defending champion Russia, last year’s finalist Italy and host nation Australia all open their ATP Cup campaigns on Tuesday in Sydney. Four players — Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev, Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner — in the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings will be in action.
Here are the five things that matter most ahead of Day 2 at the 2022 ATP Cup.
Medvedev Confident
Twelve months ago, Daniil Medvedev continued his rich form to win four singles matches against Diego Schwartzman, Kei Nishikori, Zverev and Berrettini to help Team Russia capture the ATP Cup crown. While the late withdrawals of Andrey Rublev and Aslan Karatsev — last year’s “secret weapon” — have dealt Russia a blow, Medvedev is confident of success ahead of the team’s first Group B tie against France. “Last year was amazing for Russian tennis in general…and I think that’s what can, again, help us a lot this week because everybody is expecting us to do well,” said Medvedev, who has an 8-1 record in ATP Cup singles matches. “Usually, I like this kind of pressure. It makes you play better.”
In the No. 1 singles match, the World No. 2, who won four ATP Tour titles in a career-best 2021 season, will be looking to avenge his 6-4, 6-3 loss to France’s Ugo Humbert at Hamburg in July 2020. Humbert will be making his ATP Cup debut for France, which boasts Arthur Rinderknech, Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Fabrice Martin. “I’m super happy to be with these guys,” said Humbert, ahead of his first match on Ken Rosewall Arena. “I saw the past editions of the ATP Cup. I really like the atmosphere of the competition.”
Zverev, Norrie Look For Immediate Impact
Zverev finished the 2021 season in style by winning 12 of his last 14 matches, including titles at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna and the Nitto ATP Finals, but on Day 2, the German comes up against another player who enjoyed a stellar year. Cameron Norrie, who rose to a career-high No. 12 in the ATP Rankings with two ATP Tour trophies from five finals, will be hoping to avenge his two losses to Zverev at Acapulco and Montreal in 2019 when Great Britain challenges Germany in Group C during the night session on the Qudos Bank Arena.
“A lot of the time last year, I was being the underdog, going out and hunting those guys,” said Norrie on Thursday. “Whereas now, I think, some of the time, it’s going to be people hunting me. The pressure only gets more, but I’m looking forward to it. [I] feel good physically and [I’m] excited to kick off the year in such a great team event.”
Zverev, who has a 4-2 record at the ATP Cup and helped Germany to the 2021 semi-finals, admitted, “The matches are difficult. I’m playing Cameron Norrie… to start the year off against the World No. 12, it can only be in this event for me. It is a great challenge. I will know exactly where I am at after the first few matches.”
Briton Daniel Evans will look to extend his perfect 2-0 ATP Head2Head record against Jan-Lennard Struff in the No. 2 singles match.
Photo: Peter Staples/ATP Tour
Italian Firepower
With two players in the Top 10 – Berrettini and Sinner – plus Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, a doubles team that won the 2015 Australian Open trophy, it’s safe to say that Italy’s captain Vincenzo Santopadre has some serious firepower at his disposal. “Our aim is to win the title,” said Berrettini, who won three of his four singles matches to help Italy advance to the 2021 ATP Cup final. “It’s our goal to always do better than the previous experience,” said Santopadre. “So of course, we don’t have to be shy to say that we are here trying to win.”
Berrettini won’t be fazed when he plays Australia’s Alex de Minaur in Group B, during the night session. “Alex is a really tricky player, especially here in Sydney, in his home country,” said Berrettini, who beat De Minaur 6-4, 6-4 in the Cinch Championships semi-finals in June 2021. “He’s been playing his best tennis here. I think this atmosphere brings him to play his best tennis, so it’s going to be very tough match. But I like it when the atmosphere is like that. I like [when] stadiums are packed, and people are cheering for you or against you. I’m really looking forward to that match.”
Sinner, a winner of four ATP Tour titles last year, opens the tie against Australia’s James Duckworth. The pair split their two 2021 meetings, with Duckworth winning 6-3, 6-3 in Toronto and Sinner prevailing 7-6(4), 6-4 in Sofia.
Neighbours To Clash
Canada plays United States during the day session on Ken Rosewall Arena that neither team will want to lose. Felix Auger-Aliassime is not only the Canadian captain this week, but the World No. 11 will also shoulder the responsibility of facing Taylor Fritz in the No. 1 singles match. Denis Shapovalov, currently No. 14 in the ATP Rankings, will also have a first-time meeting against American John Isner.
United States captain Michael Russell, who is Fritz’s full-time coach, said, “We’re excited. We finished last year pretty strong, and we’re looking to come up against Canada Sunday and we feel good about our team. Everybody’s fired up.”
Neighbours To Clash
Canada plays United States during the day session on Ken Rosewall Arena that neither team will want to lose. Felix Auger-Aliassime is not only the Canadian captain this week, but the World No. 11 will also shoulder the responsibility of facing Taylor Fritz in the No. 1 singles match. Denis Shapovalov, currently No. 14 in the ATP Rankings, will also have a first-time meeting against American John Isner.
Doubles Deciders
The final tie on Saturday went down to the wire with Serbia’s Nikola Cacic and Filip Krajinovic beating Norwegians Viktor Durasovic and Casper Ruud 7-6(3), 6-3. On Sunday, some of the world’s best doubles players could feature. Jamie Murray and Joe Salisbury are slated to take on Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz when Great Britain meets Germany, while Australia’s John Peers and Luke Saville are scheduled to face Bolelli and Fognini of Italy. Throw into the mix, Rajeev Ram for the United States, which has plenty of options. Isner believes the United States has several partnership options at its disposal for the doubles match. As Isner admitted, “I think any of us [with] Raj obviously the staple, can play doubles. Physically, I don’t think it’s an issue.” Currently Fritz and Isner are down to play Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov, but Ram and Brandon Nakashima are also available for the Americans.
SCHEDULE – SUNDAY, 2 JANUARY 2022
KEN ROSEWALL ARENA start 10:00 am
Group B – Russia v France, Day Session
R. Safiullin (RUS) vs A. Rinderknech (FRA)
D. Medvedev (RUS) vs U. Humbert (FRA)
Subject to change – D. Medvedev (RUS) / R. Safiullin (RUS) vs F. Martin (FRA) / E. Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
Start 5:30 pm
Group B – Italy v Australia, Night Session
J. Sinner (ITA) vs [WC] J. Duckworth (AUS)
Not Before 7:00 pm
M. Berrettini (ITA) vs [WC] A. de Minaur (AUS)
Subject to change – S. Bolelli (ITA) / F. Fognini (ITA) vs [WC] J. Peers (AUS) / L. Saville (AUS)
QUDOS BANK ARENA start 10:00 am
Group C – Canada v United States, Day Session
D. Shapovalov (CAN) vs J. Isner (USA)
F. Auger-Aliassime (CAN) vs T. Fritz (USA)
Subject to change – F. Auger-Aliassime (CAN) / D. Shapovalov (CAN) vs T. Fritz (USA) / J. Isner (USA)
Start 5:30 pm
Group C – Germany v Great Britain, Night Session
J. Struff (GER) vs D. Evans (GBR)
Not Before 7:00 pm
A. Zverev (GER) vs C. Norrie (GBR)
Subject to change – K. Krawietz (GER) / T. Puetz (GER) vs J. Murray (GBR) / J. Salisbury (GBR)
