Chile claim Quad World Group title on BNP Paribas World Team Cup debut
Chile completed a memorable quad World Group debut at the 2024 BNP Paribas World Team Cup on Saturday, the top seeds earning a late night 2-1 victory over host nation Turkiye at the Megasaray Tennis Academy in Antalya to be crowned World Team Cup champions for the first time.
Francisco Cayulef and Diego Perez beat Ali Ataman and Ahmet Kaplan 6-4 6-3 under floodlights, the decisive match point coming shortly after 21.15 local time after two hours of play to end what was also a personal best week for the Turkiye team.
Two relatively one-sided singles matches saw world No. 10 Cayulef claim the last 10 games in a 6-2, 6-0 victory over world No. 16 Ugur Altinel.
However, Kaplan, who started World Team Cup week at a career-best world No.11, gave the enthusiastic local fans plenty to cheer as he levelled the tie with a 6-1 6-1 victory over world No. 9 Diego Perez after 62 minutes.
As dusk descended into nightfall and the reigning Parapan American Games quad doubles gold medallists took on the European Para Championships silver medallists, Chile secured an early break in the deciding doubles to lead 2-0.
Cayulef and Perez broke the home team again in the fourth game of the second set en route to completing a historic two-month period that started with Chile’s victory in the combined BNP Paribas World Team Cup Asia/Ocean-Americas Quad Qualification in March.
View this post on Instagram