Doubles gives Spain the lead in Group B in the Davis Cup

Madrid., The Spanish Davis Cup team, already qualified for the Finals, beat Australia (2-1) on Sunday in the third match of the qualifying round for the Finals of the competition, whose Group B is being hosted by Valencia, after Pablo Carreño came from behind against Jordan Thompson (2-6, 6-2, 7-6(3)), Alexei Popyrin beat Pedro Martínez (6-4, 6-4), and the Spanish pair formed by Pedro Martínez and Marcel Granollers turned the match around against Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell (5-7, 6-4, 6-4).

In the battle to take first place in Group B on the hard court of La Fonteta, the Asturian tennis player saw his rival break his second serve and go up 3-0. In an endless seventh game, he wasted up to five break points to level the match, but Thompson fought back and managed another break in the next game that allowed him to win the set.

Despite all this, Carreno responded in a second set in which both players showed their reliability in the first games. The Spaniard thwarted the only chance of the Oceanian to break in the whole set, and then linked four games to win the set and force a third.

In it, Thompson signed a break In the fourth game, he seemed to be on track to win, but when he was serving to win at 5-3, Carreño managed to break his serve. Finally, everything had to be decided in the tie-break, where two mini-breaks gave the player from Gijón the victory.

Pedro Martínez was then unable to close the tie against Alexei Popyrin, who won by a double 6-4. Two lonely breaksone in each set, were enough for the world number 24 to take the victory in just an hour and a half of play.

Finally, it was the doubles that would decide the group’s leadership. There, Pedro Martínez and Marcel Granollers were in charge of giving Spain the victory in the third and definitive point, after beating the Australian duo formed by Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell.

The match was not easy for the Spaniards, as the first set went to the Australians after a very disputed set, with a break on the Spaniards’ serve in the twelfth game. A break that also meant the final 7-5 for Ebden and Purcell.

But the Spanish reaction would come in the second set. There, Granollers and Martínez managed to break their rivals’ serve for the first time in the third game of the set. A break that, after holding all the serves with ease, meant the set for the Spaniards. Positive momentum that continued in the third and final set, which would also fall to the Spanish side by a score of 6-4.