Canadas Felix Auger Aliassime holds the trophy after Canada won the Davis Cup tennis tournament for the first time at the Martin Carpena sportshall, in Malaga on Nov. 27. Auger-Aliassime sealed tennis history for Canada by beating Australia 2-0.
Canada made tennis history on Sunday by beating Australia and hoisting the Davis Cup for the first time.It was Félix Auger-Aliassime who secured the winning point at the Davis Cup finals in Malaga, Spain, in a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Alex de Minaur. Montreal’s world No. 6 fell to the ground in joy as a pile of his red-jacketed Canadian teammates sprinted out to jump on him in emotional celebration.Among those players in the jubilant heap was his boyhood friend Denis Shapovalov, world No. 21, who set Canada off to a confident start in Sunday’s finals against Australia of the prestigious team event with a dominant 6-4, 6-2 win over Thanasi Kokkinakis.Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov, then baby-faced teenagers in Madrid, had won the Junior Davis Cup in 2015, something that no Canadian boys had done.“I remember us thinking, like, we are 15, 16, and we just won Junior Davis Cup, projecting ourselves winning this one day,” Auger-Aliassime said in the team’s virtual news conference on Sunday. “It’s cool to be in this position now, and it’s kind of full circle.”
Source: Canada beats Australia to claim first Davis Cup championship – The Globe and Mail
