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 | Wawrinka left Switzerland in the Davis Cup elite19-09-2011 |
Stanislas Wawrinka won the decisive singles match in the match of the World Team Cup Tennis Davis Cup and he left Switzerland in the elite group for next season. The Swiss have forced a 3-2 win over Australia and the fifth meeting was moved to today because of darkness. That defeat left the Australians in the Asian region for the next year. Wawrinka had in the last game over the host star Lleyton Hewitt with 4:6, 6:4, 6: 7 (7:9), 6:4, 6:3. The match was suspended at the request of the master host Patrick Rafter, who quarreled with the judge Javier Moreno and the match was repositioned for the next day because of poor lighting on the court. When the players returned, Hewitt proved that there are problems in the knee and 3:5 and a service failed to hold the match. Earlier in the meeting two wins on the European stock even made the team star Roger Federer.