This afternoon Santi Giraldo started the participation of Colombia at the Davis Cup BNP Paribas

—corresponding to the playoffs to the Davis Cup World Group being held in Halifax, Canada—facing Canadian Vasek Pospisil,

The match was won by the Canadian tennis player by 3-6(2) 6-7 3-6 during 2 hours and 8 minutes of gameplay.

Pospisil won the first set by 6-3 in 34 minutes.

The second set was kind of even, Santi managed to break during the sixth game, but Pospisil recovered almost immediately. The partial was defined during the tiebreak (6-6) with service by Pospisil whom won by 7-2 in 1 hour and 2 minutes of gameplay.

During the last partial, Vasek managed to break and held it until the end of the set that won by 6-3 in 34 minutes.

Santi had an excellent performance with his first service (71%) from which he won a 67, but was overtaken by the strength and steadiness of the Canadian, whom achieved 15 aces and 20 winning shots, key to win the event; against 2 aces and 6 winning shots by Santi.

Santi had previously faced Pospisil at the Washington DC City Open at the beginning of august. Santi, after reaching quarterfinals of this ATP 500, managed to climb four positions in the classification achieving 1,205 points that ranked him as position number 30.

Tomorrow around 12:00HR COL, 14:00HR CAN, the Colombian doubles team of Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah will have its chance, facing locals Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil.

Santi will finish his participation this Sunday after 12:00HR COL, 14:00HRS CAN facing Milos Raonic, while Alejandro Gonzalez will face Vasek Pospisil.

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