Davis Cup: The meeting in the European / African House 1 is in a 2: 2 situation and will be decided in the fifth game between Yishai Uliel and Sergei Stachovsky
Daniel Zuckerman.
In pairs he did better
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Oded Karni
At the end of four games in the Davis Cup meeting between Israel and Ukraine, the result is 2: 2 and the decision went to the singles game between Yishai Uliel and Sergei Stakhovsky.
The Ukrainians won the first meeting, in which Daniel Zuckerman (799 in the world) dropped a 1: 6, 0: 3 advantage, and surrendered to Ilya Marchenko (177) 6: 3 in the second set and 6: 2 in the decisive one. Idan Leshem (387) surprised in the second game the 194th ranked in the world, Stachovsky, with 3: 6, 6: 3, 2: 6 and balanced to 1: 1.
Today, Israel made a comeback in the doubles match, in which captain Yoni Ehrlich, 43, and Zuckerman teamed up to win 4: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6 over Stakhovsky and Dennis Molchenov, but the Ukrainians balanced the meeting when they surrendered to Marchenko 6: 3, 6: 2.
As mentioned, the decision moved to the fifth game, in which the winner will win the meeting in the European / African House 1.