Siddhant Banthia and Adil Kalyanpur registered identical wins as junior Indian Davis Cup team qualified for the World Group after five years with a 2-0 win over Australia in the third-place Play-off on Saturday
New Delhi: Siddhant Banthia and Adil Kalyanpur registered identical wins as junior Indian Davis Cup team qualified for the World Group after five years with a 2-0 win over Australia in the third-place Play-off on Saturday.
Siddhant tamed Thomas James Bosancic 6-2, 6-4 in the first singles and Adil sealed it for India with his win with the same score-line against Alexander Crnokrak. With India sealing the third place finish in the Asia/Oceania zone, the doubles rubber was not played.
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Adil and Megh Patel were to feature in the dead rubber. China and Japan were the other teams to qualify for the World Group. India had lost to China (1-2) and Japan (1-2) while it beat Indonesia (3-0) Korea (2-1) and Thailand (2-1) in previous matches.
AITA President Anil Khanna announced a cash award of R1 lakh each for all five players, including reserves — Abhimanyu Bannenreddy and Suresh Dhakshineswar.
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