DAVIS CUP TIE INFO: Australia v Bosnia & Herzegovina<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAustralian\u00a0captain Lleyton Hewitt has paired John Peers and Jordan Thompson for Saturday\u2019s doubles match against Tomislav Brkic and Basic, to be played before the\u00a0reverse singles matches.<\/p>\n
Millman was content to be drawn to play first-up in the revamped cup format \u2013 matches will be decided over three sets and the tie contested over two days, rather than the traditional three days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s added pressure,\u201d Millman told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as the number two player, playing against their top player, I think probably there\u2019s a little more pressure on him \u2013 that one could be really crucial for them to get off to a good start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have definitely identified it as a really big opportunity to send that message that we\u2019re Australians and we\u2019re playing in our home country and we\u2019re here to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m looking forward to getting things up and rolling and I see it as a responsibility for myself to steer the ship in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia is among 12 nations seeking a win in cup ties and secure the remaining slots in the 18-nation final to be held in November in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Millman says he feels a sense of responsibility, but not pressure, by playing the opening\u00a0singles match of Australia\u2019s Davis Cup tie against Bosnia and\u00a0Herzegovina. The world No.36\u00a0Millman has been drawn against the Bosnia\u2019s top player and world No.52 Damir Dzumhur for Friday\u2019s opening of the tie at Memorial Drive in Adelaide. Australia\u2019s No.1\u00a0Alex De […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":17289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}