News - Igor Kunitsyn
Rain wiped out the entire day's play Wednesday at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships. The action will resume Thursday with one first-round match still to be played -- that being between Taylor Dent and Marcos Daniel.
Israel, which had already clinched a berth in the Davis Cup semifinals, finished its matches with Russia Sunday, posting a final score of 4-1. Harel Levy got the final point, beating Igor Kunitsyn 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-2) at Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israelis had already built an unbeatable 3-1 advantage Saturday in the best-of-five matches. Israel will go against Spain in the semifinals in September.
The team of Andy Ram and Jonathan Ehrlich won their doubles match in five sets Saturday, leading Israel to its first ever Davis Cup semifinal. Ram and Ehrlich beat Igor Kunitsyn and Marat Safin 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 4-6, 6-4 in a dramatic match at Tel Aviv's Nokia Stadium, giving Israel a 3-0 win over Russia and making Sunday's two scheduled singles matches unnecessary. I actually can't describe how I feel, team captain Eyal Ran said after his team, including singles players Harel Levy and Dudi Sela, made men's tennis history.
Harel Levy and Dudi Sela each won in four sets Friday, putting home-standing Israel ahead 2-0 in its Davis Cup quarterfinals against Russia. Levy, ranked No. 210 in the world, opened the best-of-five series with a 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 win over No.
Dudi Sela, after a surprising fourth-round Wimbledon showing, leads Israel's Davis Cup team against Russia in a best-of-five quarterfinal series. Sela upset two top-15 players during his run at Wimbledon and has moved to 33rd in the world ahead of Friday's two singles Davis Cup matches to be played on an indoor hard court in Tel Aviv. Harel Levy will open Friday for the Israelis against Russia's Mikhail Youzhny before Sela faces Igor Andreev, who at No.
