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 | The Czech Republic defend Davis Cup18-11-2013 |
The Czech Republic won for the second consecutive year the World Championship in men's tennis - Davis Cup after the final in "Belgrade Arena" won with 3-2 over the host Serbia.
In the decisive fifth game, the second missile of the Czech Republic Radek Stepanek leave no chance to Dusan Lajovic and beat him with 6-3, 6-1, 6-1.
Lajovic took the first game of the match, and with breakthrough for start, but lost the next four, and Stepanek pulled confident to the winning of the set. The following passes were exchanged, but quite enough to take the Czech tennis player this set with 6-3.
The following two sets, however, were total, although the expected failure of the Serbs and Radek Stepanek beat convincingly with 6-1, 6-1.
Stepanek record his name in the history of tennis, becoming only the third player to win twice the fifth meetings from the finals and the first to send it in two consecutive years.
Last year again Stepanek deal with Nicolas Almagro in the fifth game, and now do the same against 11 years younger Dusan Lajovic.
The match lasted just an hour and 52 minutes, and endorsed the Czech Republic as No. 1 for Davis Cup in the last two seasons.