Highlights: Rusia 2-1 Italy in ATP Cup

Russia won the doubles match after a bad start, took the series against Italy and qualified to the semifinals of the competition without losing any series in the group stage.

Russia managed to hold serve and a super tie-break is coming up where the two pairs will fight to reach 10 points first and qualify for the semifinals.

Daniil Medvedev and Roman Safiulin hold the advantage and will serve to take the match to the final set.

The Russians and Italians took care of holding their serves, the end of the second set is near and the Russians have a 4-3 lead to take this match to a third set.

This time the Russian duo was able to defend the advantage they had gained and with their serve they put themselves 3-1 to try to take this match to a third and definitive set, not only for the series, but also to define the qualifier to the semifinals.

After a very complicated service game, the Russians managed to get a break to go up 2-1 in the second set and with the serve in their favor.

The Russian duo struggled with their serve, but managed to hold on and the Italians were unable to gain the advantage in the second set.

The Italian duo takes again a break opportunity, this time in a very important moment to take the set 5-7.

Russia could not take advantage of the break in the previous game and the Italians evened the game with the opponents' serve.

The Russians take advantage of their first break opportunity in the first set and go up 4-3 against Italy in the doubles match.

The two duos reach the sixth game of the doubles match tied at 3 and without allowing any break options.

In the beginning of the game neither of the two pairs suffers with their serves, despite the fact that neither player in the teams is a doubles specialist.

The final match of the series between Russia and Italy gets underway with Matteo Berrenttini serving for Italy.

Players Daniil Medvedev and Roman Safiulin for Russia and Matteo Berrenttini and Jannik Sinner for Italy warm up to define the series and the qualifier to the semifinals of the ATP Cup.

Daniil Medvedev manages to carry the advantage he got at the beginning of the match and is up 5-3 and very close to equalize the series and that the doubles match will define everything.

The Italian player and the Russian manage to defend their serve and the third is 4-2 in favor of Daniil Medvedev.

The Russian player started with complications to hold his serve, but scored 4 points in a row and confirmed the advantage for his country.

Daniil Medvedev again takes a break point opportunity after getting none in the second set and the last one was in the eighth game of the first set.

The first two games of the last set start the same as in the second set, tight and with little margin for the opponent to take advantage of errors.

Matteo Berrettini takes the tie-break by a score of 5-7 and this second point of the series will be defined in a third set.

The second set was defined in tie-break after they reached game 12 tied at 6.

The end of the second set is near and the two players are even at 5 games, we are in the final stage of the set where it will be known if the match ends in two sets or if a third set has to be played.

The differences in the second set have been nil and in the middle of the set they are 3-3.

The Italian tennis player became more relaxed in the second set and tied the second set at two games.

Matteo Berrettini finally gets even in a game with the Russian, winning his first service game.

Russia takes the first set of the second match of the series by taking advantage of a new break opportunity and leaving the score 6-3 in favor of Daniil Medvedev.

The Russian player continues to put pressure on the Italian with his serve, he is 4-2 in favor and in all his opponent's service games he has taken it to deuce.

Italy's Matteo Berretini gets his first game of the match after losing the first three of the first set.

The Russian player knows the responsibility he has and very quickly takes the lead getting a break and putting the score 2-0 in favor of his country.

Jannik Sinner wins the first match of the series 6-7 (6-8), 3-6.

Italy has a great chance to take the first match of the series as they are 3-5 up and on serve for the match.

Italy's Jannik Sinner gets a very important break, the score is 2-4 and Italy is approaching the end to take the first match of the series.

There is no difference in their serves and the second set begins very similar to what was the first.

Russian Roman Safiullin wants to pick himself up from what happened in the first set and wins the first service game of the second set.

At the end of the first set both players made many errors, but Jannik Sinner was able to put pressure on the Russian in the last points and make him make mistakes that cost him the set and the Italian takes the first set tie-break by a score of 6-8, when the Russian had a 6-4 advantage.

The first will be defined in the decisive game that will be definitive for both players because both are looking to keep the advantage for what is to come.

At the end of the tenth game of the first set the score is 5-5 and both players will try to find a break that will bring them closer to take the first set.

Both players show a great level with their serve only giving up one service per side and we start to reach the final stages of the first set with two very even players.

The Italian player had a difficult serving game being 0-40 down, but managed to recover to not let the Russian go and equalize 3-3 the first set.

Roman Safiullin takes advantage of several errors by his opponent and breaks to tie the first set again.

Berrettini defends his serve and confirms the advantage he got in the first game of the match.

Italian Matteo Berrettini breaks in the first game of the match and starts his match calmly.

One of the most attractive series of the day begins, where it will be known which team will qualify to the semifinals.

The match between Roman Safiullin and Jannik Sinner will be the first in the history between these two players.

The day's matches will be played as follows:

• Earlier in the day, Russia's Roman Safiullin will expose his undefeated record in the competition's singles matches when he faces Jannik Sinner.
• In the second round, the best match of the series will be played when Daniil Medvedev takes on Italy's Matteo Berrettini.
• And in the closing match of the day, the Russian duo of Roman Safiullin and Daniil Medvedev will play the third point, if necessary, to close the series against Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini, who will represent Italy.

Equipo	PJ	PG	PP	SG	PTS
1. Rusia	6	5	1	2	2
2. Italia	6	4	2	1	1
3. Australia	6	2	4	1	1
4. Francia	6	1	5	0	0

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