Israel Beaten By Chile

Andrew Sherwood - Monday 8th 2010f March 2010


Israel have lost their Davis Cup World Group First Round match against Chile after Dudi Sela was beaten 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 by Fernando Gonzalez on Monday.

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Having reached the heights of the semi-finals last year, Israel's Davis Cup tennis side now face a fight to stay in the World Group after they were comprehensively defeated 4-1 in Chile.

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However, even in disappointment, the Israeli squad are hoping to gain from this experience to Dudi Sela, who lost both his singles matches, said after his loss to Fernando Gonzalez: "I squandered some good chances, but overall Gonzalez was much better than me. "Unfortunately I didn't play well enough and lost, but we will learn from this experience. We are all disappointed, but we are focusing on the future."

Sela and Harel Levy lost the tie's opening two rubbers, before Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich kept the Israelis in the tie by winning the doubles match on Sunday. Ram said: "Chile is simply too good for us at home on the clay", it sucks to lose, but we now must turn our attention to remaining in the World Group."

However, Monday proved to be another disappointing tie as Sela lost once more -his fourth consecutive Davis Cup loss, before in a dead rubber, Levy fell to his second defeat.

Reflecting on the tie and more importantly, the future, captain Eyal Ran said: "It is important we take the good things from this tie. The matches were tight and the players gave their best.

"This tie will help us when we next play on clay. We will do everything we can to remain in the World Group and we are hoping for a home draw because we miss our fans."

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