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Canada beat Australia in the final and won its first Davis Cup

Canada beat Australia in the final and won its first Davis Cup

While second shift, in Malaga, Felix Auger-Aliassime (6) defeated Alex de Miñaur (24) 6-3, 6-4 after 1 hour and 42 minutes of the matchto sentence the triumph of the North Americans against the oceanic.

With the series 2-0 in favor of Canada, the doubles match they were going to play did not take place Felix Auger Aliassime-Vasek Pospisil against the Australians Max Purcell – Jordan Thompson.

In this way, Canada brings the list of countries that Davis achieved to 16, a list that leads the USA with 32 titles, followed by Australia with 28.

The list did not have a new winner since the Salad Bowl conquered by Argentina in 2016.

In the first match of the day, Shapovalov obtained a comfortable victory against Kokkinakis, so the only question that remained was to know how he was physically for the second match Aliassime, the sixth racket in the World, who yesterday played the three points for Canada in the victory 2 to 1 against Italy.

But, the Canadian had no problem getting rid of Alex De Miñaur and managed to prevail in two sets, to retire from Malaga as champion and undefeated, since he won all four matches he played in the Davis Cup Finals, three in singles and the rest in double.

The anecdotal thing about the consecration of Canada is that the North Americans had been eliminated last March in the initial round of the Davis Cup playoffs, when they fell in The Hague against the Netherlands 4-0but they were invited by the organization of the contest in the absence of Russia, originally classified and which was expelled from the competition due to the war that it maintains with Ukraine

In this way, C.anadá obtained the title in its second final, because it had lost in the decisive match against Spain (0-2) in Madrid, in 2019; while Australia had not defined the tournament since 2003.

Source: Ambito

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