Tennis
Davis Cup: Great victory for Petros Tsitsipas and Greece beat Jamaica 3-2
Petros Tsitsipas saw off Phillips 2-1 and with that win Greece edged Jamaica 3-2 for the Davis Cup. Advancement to the first category will be judged in November.
The epic fall of the national tennis team is complete. Jamaica led 2-0 after the first two games in the duel, but in the end the Greeks smiled.
The victories in doubles and Thanos on Saturday brought the series to 2: 2. So everything was decided in the fifth and last game, where Petros Tsitsipas prevailed 2: 1 against Phillips and gave our national team the victory.
Now our representative band is one win away from historic ascension. The games that will decide whether Greece will be in Davis Cup World Group I in 2023 will take place next November.
Possible opponents of the national team in the 2nd round of the play-offs are: Indonesia, Latvia, Hong Kong, El Salvador, Egypt, Monaco, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, Estonia and Chinese Taipei.
In the opening set, Phillips quickly broke the second game but Petros Tsitsipas responded immediately with a breakback to level the set.
Everything indicated that the two tennis players would settle their differences in the tiebreak, but Phillips managed another break in game ten to end the set 6-4.
The second set started with a break from Petros Tsitsipas, who then kept his serve to make it 6-4.
So everything was counted in the third set. The Greek tennis player started again with a break and then managed a second for a 5-1 lead, then held at love.
Phillips responded and made the break in turn to reduce first to 5-3 and then to 5-4, but Petros Tsitsipas maintained his service in game ten to finish the match 6-4.
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