{"id":10049,"date":"2025-01-31T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/davis-cup-gbs-jacob-fearnley-beats-kei-nishikori-to-level-qualifier-against-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:32:09","slug":"davis-cup-gbs-jacob-fearnley-beats-kei-nishikori-to-level-qualifier-against-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/davis-cup-gbs-jacob-fearnley-beats-kei-nishikori-to-level-qualifier-against-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: GB’s Jacob Fearnley beats Kei Nishikori to level qualifier against Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jacob Fearnley beat former world number four Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-3 on his Davis Cup debut to level Great Britain’s first-round tie with Japan. <\/b><\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, who beat Nick Kyrgios in the Australian Open earlier this month, has risen to 77 in the world rankings from 646 over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

The British number three continued his rise against Nishikori to level the qualifier at 1-1, following Yoshihito Nishioka’s 7-5 6-1 victory against Billy Harris in Miki. <\/p>\n

The tie will be decided on Saturday, when Fearnley takes on Nishioka and Nishikori faces Harris in a reverse of Friday’s singles matches.<\/p>\n

British duo Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury play Yosuke Watanuki and Takeru Yuzuki in the doubles. <\/p>\n

British number one Jack Draper pulled out of the tie in order to continue his rehabilitation from a hip injury.<\/p>\n

Cameron Norrie, the British number two, withdrew with illness and his replacement, Jan Choinski, also pulled out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Jacob Fearnley beat former world number four Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-3 on his Davis Cup debut to level Great Britain’s first-round tie with Japan. The 23-year-old, who beat Nick Kyrgios in the Australian Open earlier this month, has risen to 77 in the world rankings from 646 over the past 12 months. The British number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10051,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions\/10051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}