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MALAGA, Spain :Australia's Alex de Minaur overpowered Emil Ruusuvuori 6-4 6-3 after Alexei Popyrin beat Otto Virtanen 7-6(5) 6-2 to earn the 28-times Davis Cup champions a 2-0 win over Finland on Friday that sent them into a second successive final.
MALAGA, Spain : Australia's Alexei Popyrin outclassed Otto Virtanen 7-6(5) 6-2 to hand the 28-times Davis Cup champions a 1-0 lead over Finland in their semi-final on Friday.
MALAGA :Last year's runners-up Australia powered into the semi-finals of the Davis Cup with a battling 2-1 win over three-times champions Czech Republic that set up a showdown with this year's surprise package Finland.
MALAGA : Tomas Machac beat Jordan Thompson 6-4 7-5 to give three-times champions Czech Republic a 1-0 lead in their Davis Cup quarter-final against 2022 runners-up Australia on Wednesday.
Thanasi Kokkinakis was not happy when he got into a dispute with the umpire over going for a second toilet break during his tough four-set defeat to Karen Khachanov at the 2023 French Open. The unseeded Australian lost out to the 11th seed in a hard-fought match, 6-4 6-1 3-6 7-6(5), on Court Simonne-Mathieu in the third round of Roland-Garros on Friday afternoon in more glorious weather in Paris.
Hubert Hurkacz saved five match points as he fought back to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in a three and a half hour epic while fourth-seed Daniil Medvedev got his Miami Open bid under way with an easy win on Saturday. Hurkacz was pushed all the way by the Australian lucky loser Kokkinakis before emerging with a 6-7 (10/12), 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (8/6) victory.
Thanasi Kokkinakis said he had «a lot of fun» despite losing to Andy Murray in their epic Australian Open second round match which lasted five hours and 45 minutes. «Although it was a heartbreaking match to be honest and I had it in the bag a few times, as distraught as I was after the match, I actually really enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun out there,» Kokkinakis said.
Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray came from two sets down to beat home hope Thanasi Kokkinakis, advancing to the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday. Murray prevailed 4-6, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 7-5 in match which ended at 4:05 am local time. However, another controversy erupted after Murray won the fourth set and forced the game into a deciding fifth set. Murray, who had already used all of his bathroom allocations, wasn't allowed to leave the court to relieve himself. However, he was seemingly not happy on being denied another bathroom break, and fumed at the chair umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore.