Davis Cup: Mahut-Herbert pair offer decisive point for France against Czech Republic

Finally, this first day ended well for Sébastien Grosjean and his men. But that this inaugural success of the Blues took a long time to emerge. For this, it took the revolt of the double Nicolas Mahut-Pierre-Hugues Herbert during match 3 this Thursday evening. After losing the first set, the recent winners of the Turin Masters recovered well to finally offer themselves a victory (3-6, 6-4, 6-3), synonymous with the first success for France in this phase of Davis Cup groups.

Even if the start of the second set was sometimes difficult, the French managed to stay in the game despite a first ball rate of 68% against 74% for the Czech pair. It was finally at the best of times, at 5-4, that they managed to make the break to pick up a set everywhere. Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert then mentally hurt their opponents and were able to follow through perfectly.

Even if everything was not perfect on Thursday evening (four double faults and only one break point converted out of nineteen in particular), the main thing was to get off to a good start before moving on against the British this Saturday.