Czechs win sixth Fed Cup in eight years

The Czech Republic won their sixth Fed Cup title in eight years yesterday as world doubles No. 1 Katerina Siniakova outlasted American Sofia Kenin 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 in front of a boisterous, sold-out home crowd.

In an exciting back-and-forth rubber lasting three hours 45 minutes, Siniakova held off the 19-year-old Fed Cup debutante to give the Czechs a 3-0 win in the final against a United States team who were the defending champions but were missing their top players.

Despite also losing their two best players just before the final, the Czechs proved their dominance in the women’s team tournament this decade, leaning on the hustle of Siniakova. “It was an unbelievable match for me. It was up and down, nerves” the 22-year-old Siniakova said on the court after the marathon match. Zverev, Marin Cilic and Isner. The Serbian has a 49-11 match record for 2018, including a tremendous 31-2 mark since the start of Wimbledon. This is the 11th time that Djokovic is playing in the year-ender following his debut in 2007.

Huge fan

So far, he has won five titles starting with 2008 (beat Nikolai Davydenko), 2012 (beat Federer), 2013 (beat Nadal) and the last two back-to-back in 2014 and 2015 against Federer.

Djokovic is a huge Red Star fan. Earlier during the US Open, he stayed awake late into the night following his club’s qualification to the main draw of the Uefa Champions League.

On September 18, Djokovic visited the Red Star locker room before their opening goalless draw against Napoli. He watched the game wearing the No. 10 home jersey gifted to him by coach Vladan Milojevic during his visit.

Red Star Belgrade’s campaign in the Uefa Champions League began well as Djokovic watched his team hold Napoli at home in mid-September. However, they were handed out a tennis-like 6-1 thrashing by PSG in Paris in their next game before getting drubbed 4-0 at Anfield by Liverpool.

“It’s been good so far,” Djokovic admitted.