Guido Pella It did not give rise to another surprise and beat the youthful Erik Arutiunian by 6-1 and 6-2, which allowed Argentina to equal its series with Belarus 1 to 1 in a day marked by the return of the public to the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, on the occasion of a playoff playoff to return to the World Group next year.
Pella, located in position 82 of the ATP world ranking, he imposed on Arutiunian, 16 years old and 42 in Juniors, his category, after one hour and 10 minutes, to bring tranquility to the 3,000 spectators who approached the stadium located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.
Pella, the only member of Davis’ champion formation in the Zagreb 2016 feat that continues in the team, corrected with a solid performance the previous misstep that he had starred in Diego Schwartzman and Argentina will be able to define the tie this Sunday, since it continues to be a wide favorite.
Schwartzman, 15th in the world and the highest-ranking tennis player in the Argentine team, had previously lost to youth Daniil Ostapenkov 6-4, 6-3 in the first point of the best-of-five series.
The tie between Argentines and Europeans will continue tomorrow from 11 am with the doubles point between Horacio Zeballos from Mar del Plata, seventh in the world in the specialty, and Máximo González (25) from Tandil, against the best tennis players of the rival team, Alexander Zgirovsky ( 1233) and Martin Borisiouk (1408).
The fourth point will be played after the doubles Schwartzman and Arutionian and for the fifth, Pella was announced against Ostapenkov, although the captains can alter the names up to two hours before each game and if the series is resolved before the last crossing could be canceled.
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