A first round without a false note – Sport.fr

Tennis – Davis Cup Saturday, February 4, 2017 – 10:19 am

France qualified for the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup, beating Japan 3 to 0 thanks to the victory of the doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut on Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama in three sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-4, Saturday in Tokyo.

Japan was deprived of its single-player of very high level, Kei Nishikori, 5th in the world. France also played without its two best ranked players, Gael Monfils, selected by Yannick Noah, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, stayed at home with his wife who is pregnant. But the level difference was too big between the two teams.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, N. 1 world of the double, have to respect the hierarchy without suffering too much in the face Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama, both classified beyond the 200th place in the specialty.

The scenario was the same on Friday. in Richard Gasquet and Gilles Simon had given the first two points to the Blues, respectively beating Taro Daniel and Yoshihito Nishioka.

The French will face either Canada or Great Britain, who were tied 1 to 1 after the first two singles in Ottawa.

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