Kei Nishikori gave the first victory for Japan in the first round of the
Davis Cup against Canada , which took place at the Ariake Coliseum ,
Tokyo , on Friday ( 01/31/2014 ) . Nishikori beat Peter Polansky , with three straight sets , 6-4 , 6-4 , 6-4 .Nishikori, who is now ranked 18th in the world , ahead of his opponent is still in the order of 135 . Through bout 2 hours 20 minutes , the 24-year tennis player hopes to open up Japan .Unfortunately , the Japanese advantage did not last long . At the second party , Go Soeda failed to steal a victory over Frank Dancevic . Canadian Dancevic equalized after ending the match with a 6-4 , 7-6 ( 2 ) , 6-1 .Doubles third party which took place on Saturday ( 02/01/2014 ) , the
plan will bring Yuichi Sugita / Yasutaka Uchiyama ( Japan ) with Daniel
Nestor / Vasek Pospisil ( Canada ) .Meanwhile
on the other party , Kazakhstan to 1-0 over Belgium , thanks to Mikhail
Kukushkin victory over Ruben Bemelmans 6-4 , 6-7 ( 3 ) , 6-2 , 6-3 . The second party between Andrey Golubev ( Kazakhstan ) and David Goffin ( Belgium ) , is currently underway .
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Davis Cup, Japan and Canada draw on Day One
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