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SPORTS Wednesday 8 January 2020

Russia, Australia,

Serbia, Britain into

ATP Cup quarters

SYDNEY (AP) — Daniil ready qualified for the
Medvedev helped Russia quarterfinals by topping
to a 3-0 sweep of its pool Group F, clinched a win
matches to join Australia, over Greece in Brisbane
Serbia and Britain in the where Nick Kyrgios defeat-
quarterfinals of the inaugu- ed a hot-tempered Ste-
ral ATP Cup on Tuesday. fanos Tsitsipas. Kyrgios re-
Medvedev clinched victo- turned from a back injury to
ry against Norway by beat- claim a 7-6 (7), 6-7 (3), 7-6
ing Casper Ruud 6-3, 7-6 (6) (5) win at Pat Rafter Arena.
in Perth. Karen Khachanov After losing the first set, Ts-
had already routed Victor itsipas slammed his racket
Durasovic 6-2, 6-1. into the bench, acciden-
The fifth-ranked Medve- tally hitting his father and
dev will join Serbia’s No- Greece captain Apostolos
vak Djokovic, undefeated Tsitsipas on the forearm. His
Australia and probably father walked away briefly
Rafael Nadal in Sydney for before Tsitsipas’ mother,
the knockout stages start- Julia, emerged from the
ing on Thursday. Only an crowd to stand behind the
unlikely 3-0 loss to Japan bench and criticize her son
on Wednesday would stop for his behavior.
Nadal and his Spanish Davis Earlier, John Millman of
Cup-winning teammates Australia beat Michail Per-
from making the quarterfi- volarakis 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1).
nals. British No. 1 Dan Evans out-
Australia will play Britain for classed Radu Albot 6-2 6-2
a spot in the final four after to clinch their match after
Britain swept past Moldo- Cameron Norrie downed Russia's Daniil Medvedev returns a shot against Norway's Casper Ruud during their ATP Cup tennis
va 3-0 without dropping a Alexander Cozbinov by the match in Perth, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020.
set and then took advan- same scoreline. Associated Press
tage of Bulgaria losing to Britain captain Tim Henman
Belgium 2-1 to finish first in said he’s looking forward 6-2, 6-2 after Jan-Lennard Zverev has 31 double faults Italy took a winning 2-0
Group C. After David Gof- to the quarterfinal against Struff put Germany ahead in 31 service games in the lead over the United States.
fin beat Grigor Dimitrov 4-6, Australia. defeating Felix Auger-Alias- tournament. He said an Fabio Fognini beat John Is-
6-2, 6-2, Belgium rallied from “I have a lot of history with sime 6-1, 6-4. offseason exhibition tour in ner 6-4, 7-6 (5) and Stefano
a match and a set down to (Australia captain) Lley- But Zverev’s loss and a South America with Roger Travaglia defeated Taylor
take the group match in ton (Hewitt) and everyone 6-3, 7-6 (4) doubles win for Federer left him behind in Fritz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (1).
Sydney. knows the team well. It Shapovalov and Auger- his preparations. The six group winners and
The loss was costly for the would be a big challenge, Aliassime over Kevin Krawi- “I had like five days less two best second-place fin-
previously unbeaten Bul- but we would love that op- etz and Andreas Mies gave than I normally have ... I ishers advance. Two quar-
garians, who fell to third in portunity,” Henman said. Canada the win. didn’t practice a lot of ten- terfinals are set for Thurs-
their group and out of con- Also in Brisbane, Canada With a 2-1 record in pool nis,” he said. “You can see day and two more on Fri-
tention for a quarterfinal eliminated Germany 2-1. play, Canada can still qual- that on the tennis court. day. The semifinals are on
spot as one of the best two Alexander Zverev made ity for the quarterfinals as There are a lot of things Saturday and the final on
group runners-up. seven double faults in los- one of the best two group that I still need to improve.” Sunday at Ken Rosewall
Australia, which had al- ing to Denis Shapovalov runners-up. In the night match at Perth, Arena.q