The Danes led Davis Cup against Russians in the match

The Russian tennis player Evgeny Donskoy lost to the Dange Frederik Nielsen in the starting single game of the match of the first round of the Euro-African zone of the Davis Cup, which is held in New Urengoy.

The meeting ended with a score of 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2, 7: 6 (7: 5) in favor of the 31-year-old Danish, who takes 306th place in the Attskor ranking (Donskoy is the 155th racket of the world).

The duel lasted 2 hours 35 minutes. Donskoy made five Aits, once he made a mistake when serving and implemented five brack punts. Nielsen handed over seven times, made two double errors and took seven rival feeds.

The score in the confrontation of up to three victories was 1-0 in favor of the guests. Later on Friday, the leader of the Russians Andrei Kuznetsov (No. 81 in the Attic Center rating) defeated the second number of Denmark Martin Pedersen (No. 749) and equalized the score. On Saturday, a pair meeting will be held, in which Konstantin Kravchuk and Andrei Rublev will play with Nielsen and Thomas Croanen.

Recall that last season the Russian team retained the right to speak in the first group of the Davis Cup, almost flying into the second division. The trophy itself is played out in the elite world group. Its operating owners are the Swiss .