ISLAMABAD: India defeated Pakistan in both singles and doubles events to win the Davis Cup tie and take a 4-0 lead over Pakistan. In the Davis Cup tie in Islamabad, India defeated Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan and Muzamil Murtaza 2-6, 6-7 in the doubles match. Pakistan’s top tennis star and considered doubles specialist Aisam-ul-Haq could not participate in the Davis Cup matches on Sunday due to a hamstring injury, which dealt a further blow to Pakistan’s hopes of winning the match.
\nIndia’s Nikki Ponnacha defeated young Muhammad Shoaib 3-6 4-6 after just 64 minutes of competition. India now has an overall lead of 0-8 against Pakistan in Davis Cup matches. Earlier in the singles matches played yesterday, India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan won the first set 7-6, the second set 6-7 and the third set 0-6 against Pakistan’s Easam-ul-Haq. After Pakistan was defeated by India in the second singles match as well, Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan was defeated by India’s Sriram Balaji with the score of 5-7 in the first set and 3-6 in the second set. The last encounter between the two countries was in Kazakhstan in 2014, in which India won by a score of 0-4. It should be remembered that Pakistan is hosting the Indian tennis team in the Davis Cup for the first time\u00a0in\u00a060\u00a0years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: India defeated Pakistan in both singles and doubles events to win the Davis Cup tie and take a 4-0 lead over Pakistan. In the Davis Cup tie in Islamabad, India defeated Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan and Muzamil Murtaza 2-6, 6-7 in the doubles match. Pakistan’s top tennis star and considered doubles specialist Aisam-ul-Haq could not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-63","category-57"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21486,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions\/21486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}