Austria’s tennis men started the new Davis Cup year with a defeat (Ofner loses to Watanuki at the start of the Davis Cup >>>).
In the second singles, Austria’s Davis Cup number two Jurij Rodionov meets the number one of the Japanese team, Shintaro Mochizuki (from 7:45 a.m. in the live ticker>>>).
On paper, the Japanese is easy to favor. Mochizuki is currently ranked 108th in the ATP world rankings. Yurij Rodionov is almost 60 places behind in 170th place.
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