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The USA celebrated profitable the inaugural United Cup Sunday with a complete victory over Italy within the ultimate in Sydney, Australia.
Taylor Fritz, the world No.9, secured victory, defeating large hitting Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (8-6) in a tense two-hour-plus match.
When Berrettini despatched a forehand lengthy on championship level, the US workforce ran onto the court docket to engulf Fritz in jubilant celebration.
Jessica Pegula and Frances Tiafoe had earlier additionally earned some extent for the People to present the US an insurmountable 3-0 lead within the best-of-five ultimate. Madison Keys made it 4-0 with a 6-3 6-2 win over Lucia Bronzetti.
“It’s nice. It’s wonderful for the workforce to win this occasion. We got here in with actually excessive hopes, or at the very least I did, for the occasion,” Fritz stated, based on the official web site. “I used to be actually completely happy to be in that place to clinch the match.”
It had been a dominant show by the People within the competitors, with the workforce dropping simply two matches to complete with a 22-2 report.
The brand new competitors concerned 18 international locations taking part in round-robin matches within the Australian cities of Perth, Brisbane and Sydney.
