Davis Cup Finals Serbia vs Japan
First up for the men's Nenad Zimonjic is the match against Japan, who will try to keep themselves in the competition after losing to France in their opening match on Tuesday.
Yasutaka Uchiyama fell 6-2, 6-1 to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the opening rubber tie, but Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan to bring the level back with a spectacular 7-5 victory over Gael Monfils 6-2 double force deciding rubber.
Japan is engaged in a set of surprising victory when Uchiyama and Ben McLachlan took the opening set tie-break against the experienced French duo of Pierre Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, but Herbert and Mahut fought back to secure a thrilling 6-7 6-4 7-5 to give France win.
Japan weakened by the absence of their No. 1 player, Kei Nishikori, who has not played since the US Open because of an elbow injury, but they will be driven by how they play against France and continue to hope that they can take down Serbia in their second group match. Japan have never won the Davis Cup with their best performance being runner up their way back in 1921. They are the best in recent times are showing quarter-finals in 2014- could they beat Serbia and maintain their hopes of returning to the past eight years?
It's a tough task against a formidable Serbian team, which almost could mark a single point to Djokovic in their ranks, while Krajinovic or Lajovic will be favorites against anyone on the Japanese side.
Serbia vs Japan is directly from Madrid on Wednesday, November 20 from 10:00 GMT / 11:00 am local time.
THE PLAYERS
SERBIA
Novak Djokovic
Dusan LAJOVIC
FILIP KRAJINOVIC
Viktor Troicki
Janko Tipsarevic
JAPAN
Yoshihito Nishioka
Yasutaka Uchiyama
Yuichi Sugita
TARO DANIEL
BEN McLachlan
Prediction
It should be a breeze for Serbia, even after Japan's efforts on Tuesday against France it may not be as simple as expected. They could be planning to rest Novak Djokovic here with Filip Krajinovic and Dusan Lajovic more than capable of defeating Japanese side seriously weakened. However, the heroic Yoshihito Nishioka against Gael Monfils on Tuesday could mean that Djokovic is likely to play, just to make sure, and that should see Serbia take their first group fixture 3-0 with France entered a more daunting prospect.
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