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WTC Level 2 Group 3 Third Round Robin Round
Sri Lanka vs. Italy
Hardcourt was set as the ground for this.
Monday: A. Mehul d. X. Jue, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0
Tuesday: A. Chittoor d. A. El Brazi, 6-0, 6-2, 6-4
Wednesday: X. Jue/A. Lepore d. A. Chittoor/P. Nilima, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2
Thursday: A. Mehul d. A. El Brazi, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2
Friday: A. Chittoor d. X. Jue, 6-1, 6-0, 6-0
Sri Lanka wins 4-1!
Another typical victory, and we move up to a tie for 41st with our larger neighbors across of the Bay of Ceylon, India. All of that was fantastic stuff ... and then we looked at the quarterfinal draw.
Courtesy of a 3-2 loss to Denmark in their last tie, we draw our good friends Austria. Not only that, it's on clay. Again. Any of the other possibilities would have been better. Any other surface would have been better as well. Arglebarglezorz!!!
This time it's actually worse than before, for two reasons. Chittoor's mismanagement means we probably won't be as well prepared for the clash. Also, unlike last year, if we lose it means we don't make the promotion playoffs since it's a quarterfinal tie, not a semifinal. So yeah, it was nice to win the group but as things turned out, we probably would have been better off losing it.
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