{"id":109077,"date":"2018-02-05T09:48:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=109077"},"modified":"2018-02-05T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:48:41","slug":"dr-davis-cup-team-made-brazil-sweat-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/dr-davis-cup-team-made-brazil-sweat-to-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Davis Cup team made Brazil sweat to advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109053\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109053\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sorgi-and-Zwetsch-El-Nuevo-Diario-Olga-Almanzar-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazilians celebrate. Photo: Olga Almanzar\/ El Nuevo Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The young Dominican Davis Cup tennis team battled a more experienced Brazilian club to lose the Americas Group I play held in Santo Domingo at the Club Naco tennis courts. The matches took place on 2 February and 3 February 2018. The DR lost 2-3, with the two points secured by Jos\u00e9 (Bebo) Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p>Playing singles for the Dominican Republic were 27-year old Jos\u00e9 (Bebo) Hern\u00e1ndez, ranked 285th, 24-year old Roberto Cid (411st), 21-year old Jos\u00e9 Olivares, ranked 787th, and 17-year old Nick Hardt (1334th). Playing doubles were Nick Hardt and Jos\u00e9 Olivares.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian singles players were 23-year old Thiago Monteiro (116th), 33-year old Rogerio Dutra Silva (98th), 29-year old Joao Souza (245th), 25-year old Guilherme Clezar (213rd), and 30-year old Thomaz Bellucci (109th). Brazilian doubles team are Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares, ranked 1 and 10 in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-3 February 2018 games ended:<br \/>\nJose (Bebo) Hernandez defeated Joao Pedro Sorgi (6-2, 4-6, 7-6),<br \/>\nRoberto Cid lost to Thiago Monteiro (7-6, 5-7, 2-6)<br \/>\nNick Hardt\/Jose Olivares lost to Marcelo Demoliner\/Marcelo Melo (3-6, 4-6)<br \/>\nJos\u00e9 Hernandez defeated Thiago Monteiro (6-4, 7-6)<br \/>\nRoberto Cid Subervi lost to Joao Pedro Sorgi (6-6, 1-6, 4-6)<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican team now will match Barbados Davis Cup team on 6-7 April in Barbados.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/dominicana-pierde-brasil-una-serie-renida\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/en\/teams\/team.aspx?id=DOM\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/en\/draws-results\/group-i\/americas.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 February 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Dominican Davis Cup tennis team battled a more experienced Brazilian club to lose the Americas Group I play held in Santo Domingo at the Club Naco tennis courts. The matches took place on 2 February and 3 February 2018. The DR lost 2-3, with the two points secured by Jos\u00e9 (Bebo) Hern\u00e1ndez. Playing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/02\/05\/dr-davis-cup-team-made-brazil-sweat-to-advance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}