Frances Tiafoe beat Britain’s Daniel Evans 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Wednesday to maneuver the United States into the United Cup combined groups event semifinals.
Tiafoe’s victory gave the Americans a 3-1 successful lead within the best-of-five Sydney City Final. The groups had been scheduled to play a later combined doubles match.
It means the U.S. will probably be amongst 4 groups within the semifinal portion of the event that begins Friday at Sydney’s Ken Rosewall Arena.
Earlier, world No. 3 Jessica Pegula gave the United States a 2-1 lead by beating Britain’s Harriet Dart 6-2, 6-0 in 57 minutes.
In the afternoon session, Madison Keys moved the U.S. forward after rallying from a set all the way down to defeat Katie Swan 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. But world No. 14 Cameron Norrie got here again to publish a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 win in opposition to No. 9 Taylor Fritz to stage the match.
“I think Madi really set the tone with her match,” Pegula mentioned. “I think I did everything really well today. I could feel it. Some days you come out firing and you feel really good. I was honestly trying to settle myself down because I was seeing the ball really well today.”
Matteo Berrettini beat Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to provide Italy a 2-1 lead over Poland within the Brisbane City Final earlier than Poland gained the fourth singles match to stage it at 2-2 to ship it to a deciding combined doubles.
Earlier, world No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland leveled the tie by beating Italian Martina Trevisan 6-2, 6-4 after Lorenzo Musetti gave Italy the early lead by defeating Daniel Michalski 6-1, 6-1.
“I’m happy that even though Martina came back and played a really good second set I was able to finish it,” Swiatek, who was up 4-0 within the second set, mentioned.
“I’ll be ready for mixed if it’s a tie and for sure I’ll be cheering (during the other singles matches) but yesterday I was so stressed (watching), I don’t know how you guys in the stands do it, it was so tough.”
And within the third metropolis remaining in Perth, Western Australia, Croatia and Greece had been stage at 1-1 forward of the 2 remaining singles matches and a scheduled combined doubles.
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Donna Vekic beat Despina Papamichail 6-2, 6-0 to place Croatia forward earlier than Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Borna Coric 6-0, 6-7 (4), 7-5 on his sixth match level.
The three metropolis remaining winners and the following best-ranked group will play in Sydney from Friday to Sunday to find out the event champion.