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| France routs Belgium 5-0 Reuters | |||
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GHENT, Belgium -- France completed a
comprehensive 5-0 victory against Belgium in their Davis Cup world
group first round on Sunday.
Fabrice Santoro overcame Christophe Rochus 6-4, 6-4 to
complete the sweep after Arnaud Clement beat Filip Dewulf 6-3,
7-6.
Favorites France had wrapped up the tie on Saturday when
the experienced pairing of Cedric Pioline and Fabrice Santoro
won the doubles against Christophe Rochus and Tom van Houdt.
France will play Switzerland in the quarterfinals, while
Belgium faces a play-off to stay in the top flight.
A single service break earned Clement the first set against Dewulf, ranked 171 in the world, who struggled throughout to match his opponent, the runner-up in last month's
Australian Open. In the
second, Dewulf found some rhythm and took Clement to a tie-break,
which went to the Frenchman 12-10. | |
ALSO SEE Australia beats Ecuador in first round of Davis Cup Sweden edges out Czech Republic 3-2 Germany takes both singles matches to advance Dutch complete 4-1 victory against sorry Spain Brazil wins tie 4-1 to set up repeat of last year's semi Kafelnikov comeback gives Russia 3-2 Davis Cup win Switzerland swamps United States out of Davis Cup Davis Cup results France leads Belgium 3-0 to book second-round berth | |
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