A big day for the Davis team: Zuckerman won the decisive match, he and there won in doubles, Oliel celebrated earlier. Israel survived in the world house number 1
Today (Sunday) Israel’s Davis team came back in a big way from a 2:0 deficit to win 2:3 in its meeting with Latvia in Riga. In doing so, the blue-whites managed to survive in the world’s number 1 house. The great hero was Daniel Zuckerman, who found himself behind in the battle against Karlis Ozolins, but showed great character and overcame the 7:6 (5) with 2:6, 4:6. Earlier, Zuckerman and Idan Leshem beat Ozolinesh and Ernests Gulbis 3:6, 3:6 in the doubles match to keep Israel in the picture. Captain Yoni Ehrlich’s team got a boost in the singles matchThe first Yishai Oliel, who made his first appearance in the meeting, showed great ability and defeated Robert Strombachs 1:6, 4:6, which set the stage for Zuckerman’s decisive match. By Ozulinesh who is ranked 1,290 in the world 6:0, 6:3. Zuckerman managed to make it difficult for Gulbis, who at his peak was ranked 14th in the world, but surrendered 6:1, 2:6, 7:6 (2), and Israel found itself behind 2:0, which only makes this day even sweeter.