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Davis Cup: Canada vs. Japan - 2015
Vancouver, March 8 -
Vasek Pospisil celebrates after beating Go Soeda to give Canada a 3-2
victory over Japan. The tie toke place from March 6 to 8 on the Premier Court surface
at the Thunderbird Sports Centre on the campus of the University of
British Columbia.
The Canadian Davis Cup Team included: World No.
6 Milos Raonic (Thornhill, Ont.),
No. 4 doubles player Daniel Nestor (Toronto), No. 63 Vasek Pospisil (Vancouver) and
No. 163 Frank Dancevic
(Niagara Falls, Ont.). Fillip Peliwo (Vancouver) and Adil Shamasdin
(Toronto) will also be travelling to Vancouver with the team as extended
squad of players. Team Canada captain is Martin Laurendeau.
The
Team Japan included world No. 5 and 2014 US Open finalist Kei Nishikori,
No. 83 Go Soeda, No. 91 Tatsuma Ito and No. 282 Yasutaka Uchiyama.
Canada move on to the World Group quarter-finals and
will keep its spot in the World Group for the next year.
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Friday, March 6. 2 pm Singles
Milos
Raonic beat Tatsuma Ito, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 in the first singles match,
while Vasek Pospisil lost to Kei Nishikori, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3.
Saturday, March 7, 1 pm Doubles
Vasek Pospisil
/ Daniel Nestor beat Go Soeda / Yasutaka Uchiyama,
7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 3-6,
6-3.
Sunday,
March 8, 1 pm Reverse Singles
Milos
Raonic lost to Kei Nishikori, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4,
while Vasek Pospisil beat Go Soeda, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
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More . . .
Canada's best result is
making the semifinals in 2013, when it posted wins over Spain in the
first round and Italy in the quarter-finals before falling to Serbia in
the semifinals. This tie is a rematch of the last time these two
teams met in the first round last year, which Japan won 4-1. The Canadian team at the time
was without Raonic and Pospisil in Tokyo because of injury.
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