Vasek Pospisil won his opening singles match, then teamed with Felix Auger-Aliassime to take the deciding doubles match as Canada won its opening tie at the Davis Cup Finals tennis tournament 2-1 over South Korea on Tuesday.
Pospisil, of Vernon, B.C., and Montreal's Auger-Aliassime won the last four games in the final set of the doubles match to defeat Nam Ji Sung and Song Min-Kyu 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.
A doubles win became necessary after Auger-Aliassime - Canada's top-ranked male player at No. 13 in the world - suffered a shock 7-6 , 6-3 defeat to No. 74 Kwon Soonwoo in his singles match.A victory against South Korea was vital for a Canadian squad trying to come out of a powerful group that includes Serbia and Spain, which defeated a Canada team featuring Pospisil and Auger-Aliassime in the 2019 championship tie.
Kwon went up two early breaks in the second set to take a 4-0 lead. Auger-Aliassime scored a break in the fifth game, but Kwon held serve the rest of the way.
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