MADRID 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Argentina eliminated (2-3) to Norway this Friday in the first round of the Davis Cup thanks to the final point of Mariano Navone on Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
The champion in 2016 triumphed at the Fjellhamar Arena Oslo on a second thrilling day after the tie that the individual of Tomás Martín Etcheverry and Casper Rud left on Thursday.
The doubles of Andrés Molteni and Horacio Zeballos began this Friday surpassing Viktor Durasovic and Ruud 6-2, 7-5, to leave the South American country to a point of victory in the tie. However, Ruud, number five in the world, bent (6-3, 6-3) to Etcheverry.
In the fifth and definitive point, Navone, who had clearly lost his debut in the Davis Cup, signed an epic comeback to take a rookie to get his first victory in the tournament and also give one more round to his country.
The Argentine shake a Budkov Kjaer who, at 18, saw the victory after the first set. The ‘Albiceleste’ will thus be measured in second round to the Netherlands, finalist last year, already in the month of September, in search of the ‘Final 8’ that will be played in the Italian Bologna.