Thursday, 17 December, 2009

Spain completed a 5-0 Davis Cup final victory over the Czech Republic on Sunday as Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer eased to straight-sets wins.

Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez ensured Spain would retain the trophy by winning the doubles rubber on Saturday evening, meaning Sunday's singles were reduced to best-of-three-set affairs.

Czech captain Jaroslav Navratil opted to rest his top singles players, Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych, after two matches in as many days but Spain skipper Albert Costa stuck with his original picks.

World number 102 Jan Hajek put up some resistance against Nadal before going down 6-3 6-4, while doubles specialist Lukas Dlouhy was defeated 6-4 6-2 by Ferrer.

Spain are the first Davis Cup winners to whitewash their final opponents since Sweden beat the USA 5-0 in 1997.

Gasquet cleared by CAS
No place for Bogdanovic on 'Team AEGON'
Atlanta gets Tour event
Costa kept on
Duo free to play
Murray wins top award
Henin plays down grand slam chances
Spain win Davis Cup