{"id":9334,"date":"2014-09-15T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2014-09-15T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:33:13","slug":"australia-closes-out-5-0-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/09\/15\/australia-closes-out-5-0-victory","title":{"rendered":"Australia Closes Out 5-0 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9335\" alt=\"Hewitt-Gooch-2-700x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/09\/Hewitt-Gooch-2-700x450.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia has secured a 5-0 whitewash of Uzbekistan in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off in Perth after Sam Groth and Nick Kyrgios powered to singles wins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Groth made a perfect start to his Davis Cup career with a 6-3 6-2 win over world No.527 Temur Ismailov in a match that lasted just 63 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios made even lighter work of world No.736 Sanjar Fayziev, posting a 6-1 6-1 demolition in just 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s tie win means they have retained their spot in the elite 16-nation World Group for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan, who are yet to reach the World Group, will have to battle it out in the Asia-Oceania Zone for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Groth became the 105th player to represent Australia in Davis Cup, and his powerful serve proved too much to handle for Ismailov.<\/p>\n<p>Australia never looked in trouble against Uzbekistan throughout the tie.<\/p>\n<p>Lleyton Hewitt and Kyrgios stormed to singles wins on the opening day.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt and Chris Guccione then combined for a 6-3 7-6(5) 6-2 doubles victory over Denis Istomin and Farrukh Dustov on Saturday to give Australia an unassailable 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has secured a 5-0 whitewash of Uzbekistan in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off in Perth after Sam Groth and Nick Kyrgios powered to singles wins on Sunday. Groth made a perfect start to his Davis Cup career with a 6-3 6-2 win over world No.527 Temur Ismailov in a match that lasted just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}