BOLOGNA, Italy — After a strong start, Canada needs a strong finish Saturday in its Davis Cup group stage final.
The defending champions of what's been dubbed the World Cup of men's team tennis wrap up group play against Chile after opening with sweeps of Sweden and host Italy in Bologna.The top two countries in each of the four groups advance to November's round of eight in Malaga, Spain.
Just a single Chilean win Friday would have assured Canada of moving on to Malaga, but the Italians were tenacious in front of home-country fans on the Unipol Arena hard court.Lorenzo Muzetti and Lorenzo Sonego held off Chile's Tomas Barrios Vera and Alejandro Tabilo 6-7 , 6-3, 7-6 in a doubles match to secure the sweep.Canada defeated Australia in last year's final to win the Davis Cup for the first time. Both countries earned byes to the group stage of this year's finals.
Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, B.C., Montreal's Gabriel Diallo and Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., went a combined 6-0 in singles and doubles matches against Italy and Sweden on Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
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