Davis Cup: Sri Lanka lose relegation tie

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Yasitha de Silva & Harshana Godamanne

All hope vested on Sri Lanka proved to be futile as the Indonesian doubles pair Christopher Rungkat and Sunu-Wahyu Trijati registered a comprehensive win against the Sri Lankan pair to go 3-0 up against Sri Lanka in the Davis Cup tie.

With this result, Indonesia has successfully secured a win in the relegation tie against Sri Lanka and regardless of the result of tomorrow’s singles, Sri Lanka will have to make the descend from Group II to Group III.

The Indonesian pair faced Yasitha de Silva & Harshana Godamanne in the doubles and won three sets straight 6-2, 6-3, 6-0.

With three games up in the fixture, there remain two reverse singles for the tie and Sri Lanka will try to gain some consolation wins. Harshana Godamanne has given Nishangan Nadaraja the opportunity to play the reverse single as Nishangan is set to make his Davis Cup debut in Surakarta.

Yasitha De Silva will play the other single and play is expected to commence at 0930h Indonesian time.