With the crowds in his favor, Dominican top tennis player 35-year old Victor Estrella (ATP ranking 57th) defeated 30-year old Dustin Brown (ATP ranking 108th) of Germany in the opening game of the Davis Cup playoffs happening at the Parque del Este Tennis Courts in eastern Santo Domingo. In a hard fought game on Friday, 18 September 2015, Victor Estrella went 6-4, 5-7, 7-6, 6-6, 7-5. The game took 3:04 minutes.