The Argentine duo was able to overcome an adverse first set to take the second point for the Argentines. González and Zeballos were better and ended up imposing their law (5-7, 6-2, 6-2), to bring the local team closer to winning the Davis Cup.
They were going to dispute the third point of the tie between Argentina and Belarus Maximum Gonzalez and Horacio Zeballos by the locals and Arutiunian and Ostapenkov by the Belarusians. The big favorites were the Argentines although we had already seen in this series that surprises were the order of the day. After the scare of Argentina when losing the first game by Diego Schwartzman could be replenished with the triumph of Pella although it was they needed the victory in the doubles to stay close to winning the series.
Comeback of the Argentines
The Argentines started sending their service and they looked very solid. With the support of the public little by little they were thinking about their rivals and got to have up to four break balls, being one of them from set but they never won the award. This gave life and confidence to the Belarusians who in the eleventh game they ran into two breaking balls and they did close to keep the service and have the option of certifying the first round. They did not fail and the surprise jumped again in the tie and the point of the doubles was closer to falling for the visitors.
They were ration for the Argentines and it is that in the second round thanks to a double break and leaving better sensations and above all being more successful in the breaking balls they could take it 6-2. The Belarusians saw once again with the same score the option of winning the doubles point disappeared. The Argentines were better throughout the match but not having been successful in the breaking balls in the first round took its toll on them.
