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Coco Gough and Taylor Fritz powered the United States, who won the tournament two years ago, into the semifinals of the United Cup mixed team tennis event on Wednesday.
In the first singles match in Perth, Gough got the ball rolling for his team, beating China’s Zhang Shuai 6–2, 7–6 (4). Fritz then secured the win for the United States with a hard-fought 6-4 6-4 win over Zhang Zhizhen.
World No.3 Goff said: “Shuai was playing amazing tennis out there. I was on the field for most of the match. The harder I hit, the harder he hits.
“I felt like I couldn’t protect him. He was playing so aggressively on me and I felt like I had to go further on my second serve, which brought more double faults. But if I put it in it was a return winner so I had to take my chances.”
Fritz, ranked No. 4, then took to the court for the men’s singles, not wanting to disappoint teammate Goff. He said: “Coco did such a good job keeping us going and giving me the opportunity to come out and get us going. There was a bit of pressure because I didn’t want to be the one to lose it for the team after Coco won all her matches this week. I played a really tough match. Really happy with it.”
The Americans completed a 3-0 sweep when they defeated Zhang and Sun Fujing 6-3, 6-7 (1), 10-3 in mixed doubles. The US will next meet either Italy or the Czech Republic.
Kazakhstan also reached the semi-finals without the injured world No. 2 Alexander Zverev, beating a German side 2-1.
Zverev was a late scratch For Germany due to bicep injury. She was scheduled to face Alexander Shevchenko but withdrew at the last minute after the Kazakhstan tie led 1-0 as Elena Rybakina beat Laura Sigmund 6-3, 6-1.
Shevchenko defeated Zverev’s replacement Daniel Masur 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-2 to win the tie for Kazakhstan as Zverev watched from the sidelines. Germany later won the mixed doubles.
Leading 1-0 in the second set, Shevchenko took a medical timeout due to heat exhaustion. He came back from the break and dominated the rest of the match.
“It was definitely a heat issue,” Shevchenko said. “I had a bit of a headache, my head was spinning. The fight was in this match. It was very difficult to play in this summer.”
Kazakhstan will next face either Poland or Britain.
In Sydney, Iga Suatek and Hubert Hurkaj won their mixed doubles decider against the Czech Republic and qualified Poland for the quarterfinals.
World No. 2 Suitek and Hurkaj defeated Tomas Machach and Karolina Muchova 7-6 (3), 6-3 at Sydney’s Ken Rosewall Arena. The Polish team led 5-2 before allowing the Czechs to claw their way back into the first set.
In earlier singles, Machach edged Harkaz of the Czech Republic 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, and Suitek evened the tie with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Muchova.
Also in Sydney, Katie Boulter’s 6-2, 6-1 win over Australia’s Olivia Gadecki helped Britain into the quarter-finals.
Boulter went into the match knowing that a straight sets win would ensure Britain’s progress to the last eight as Group F winners.
He said: “I was trying to avoid all the statistics … but we were at dinner with (former British No. 1 Laura Robson) last night and she graciously told me I had to win in straight sets.”
Alex de Minaur, who goes on to marry Boulter, drew the hosts level with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Billy Harris before he combined with Gadecki to beat Charles Broome and Olivia Nicholls 6-3, 7-6 (3). meet up In mixed doubles. Australia’s 2-1 win, however, was not enough to send the team into the last eight.
In Sydney, Italy won Group D. Winners of the last two Davis Cups and runners-up in the inaugural edition of the season-opening mixed team event to the United States two years ago, Italy won its group without world number one Janic Ciner. .
All tournament play is shifted to Sydney from Thursday until the final on Sunday.
