WAL­TER AL­IBEY

wal­ter.al­ibey@guardian.co.tt

Aru­ba’s pair of Fred­er­ick and Patrick Sydow kept them well on course for one of two top spots in group B of the 2022 Davis Cup by Rakuten, Amer­i­c­as Group IV match at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

Three days af­ter whip­ping the T&T team 3-0 in their open­ing game the Sydow sib­lings re­turned to the court to pull off a sim­i­lar 3-0 win over the Unit­ed States Vir­gin Is­lands (USVI). Led in the open­ing rub­ber by Fred­er­ick Sydow, the Arubans jumped out front cour­tesy of a 6-1, 6-1 tri­umph over USVI’s Fin­lay Miller.

And lat­er, they sew up the win when Patrick Sydow came from be­hind to com­plete a gut­sy vic­to­ry 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 over Tomas Del Ol­mo in the sec­ond sin­gles.

Still, the Arubans were far from the fin­ish, the Sydow sib­lings re­turn­ing to the court to de­stroy the USVI pair of Tomas Del Ol­mo and his broth­er Lu­ca Del Ol­mo 6-2, 6-1 in the dou­bles.

Mean­while, there was al­so a vic­to­ry for Cu­ba over Nicaragua 2-1. The Cubans drew first blood when Os­mei Rivera de­feat­ed Fran­cis­co Ben­dana 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. How­ev­er, Joaquin Guilleme pulled off a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 vic­to­ry to lev­el the se­ries.

But in the dou­bles that fol­lowed the Cuban team of Yoan Perez and Rivera sealed the win by beat­ing the pair of Ben­dana and Luis Mar­quez 7-6(4), 6-3 in the dou­bles.

The T&T quar­tet of Joseph Cado­gan, Ebolum Nwoko­lo, Ak­ile Duke and Nabeel Mo­hammed who had an off-day yes­ter­day will re­turn to ac­tion this morn­ing with a cru­cial clash against Nicaragua, need­ing to win to stay alive in the tour­na­ment.