Published 10:22 IST, November 25th 2019
Spain lifts the Davis Cup for the sixth time after defeating Canada 2-0 in the finals
Spain won the Davis Cup for the 6th time after defeating Canada in the finals. Agut and Nadal put up a spectacular display of fineness against the Canadian side
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Host nations Spain lifted Davis Cup on Sunday evening, vember 24, defeating Cana in finals of newly revamped tournament. Spain defeated Cana 2-0 in singles tie. Roberto Bautista Agut who h left team for a couple of days following death of his far, returned to play finals and he defeated Felix Auger-Aliassmie in straight sets 6(3)-7(7), 3-6.
An emotional victory for Agut
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Agut's tennis was near perfect and was rey for finals after big personal loss as he raked up 78% points on first and second serve. An emotional Agut, after match, said:
"I was lucky to live last minutes of life of my d and to say goodbye to him. Everyone takes personal decisions. I think my d would have told me off if I h stayed at home. After living a trdy, best thing you can do is to step forward. This is what I have tried to do after trdies that I have lived in last few years.I drove here from Castellón yesterday and I didn´t think about playing. I came to support team with all my heart. But once we classified for final, I started feeling like playing.”
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In second match, Spain's hero and world number one Rafael Nal defeated Denis Shapovalov 3-6, 6(7)-7(9) to lift Spain's sixth Davis Cup. Nal paid his tributes to Agut and said:
"What Roberto did today is out of this planet, in my opinion. Our team is great. I don't see a lot of teams that all five players take part in competition. Each one of us played a match at least, and that makes this competition even more special because everybody of our team participated in victory.”
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After loss, Shapovalov was upbeat and proud of team's performance throughout tournament. He said, "I feel like we've really come really far as a team, as a nation. And yeah, definitely we're super-proud. Obviously it sucks, losing in finals. But I'm super-proud of everyone sitting here, super proud of people in background. We've put in 120 per cent every single day. It's amazing how far we've been able to come. For me, it's one of those weeks that I'm going to look back and really have a good feeling about it."
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Captain Frank Danevic was also proud of performance and mentioned emerging tennis in rth-American country. He said, "Tennis is really hot right w in Cana...It's great for our sport. It's really wonderful to see this young generation is playing so well. We have a really bright future ahe of us, and it's bringing a lot of kids in clubs and playing. Our federation has been great at getting things going in past dece. It's shown, and it's me a big difference in what we've done.”
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09:18 IST, November 25th 2019