Kokkinakis 完全にするs 勝利を得た summer

After 耐えるing endless lows, Thanasi Kokkinakis is savouring the highest of highs after 調印(する)ing Australia's passage through to the Davis Cup group 行う/開催する/段階s.

Returning to the Cup 倍の for the first time since the 2015 World Group 半分-決勝戦, Kokkinakis was overjoyed after 完全にするing a 勝利を得た summer (選挙などの)運動をする with a 神経-wracking 6-4 6-4 勝利,勝つ over Zsombor Piros on Saturday night.

The victory in the fifth and deciding rubber clinched a 3-2 qualifying victory for Australia and sent Lleyton Hewitt's team 支援する to Europe in September for the pool 行う/開催する/段階s of the century-old teams' event.

Kokkinakis' emotion-告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d 勝利 - which brought 涙/ほころびs to his father's 注目する,もくろむs in the stands - also followed his maiden ATP 小旅行する 肩書を与える 打開 in his home city of Adelaide in January and the 25-year-old's captivating Australian Open victory with Nick Kyrgios.

"I couldn't have asked for more from the start of the year," Kokkinakis told the jubilant (人が)群がる at Ken Rosewall 円形競技場.

"Davis Cup is so different. In those (テニスなどの)シングルス tournaments in the ATP, you're playing for yourself.

"Here, it feels like you've got the whole country 支援, supporting you. It's a different 肉親,親類d of 圧力.

"But it's something if you want to play on the big 行う/開催する/段階, you've got to get used to.

"So having the support is unreal. To play at home is sick."

A luckless run of shoulder, pectoral, groin, 膝 and 肘 傷害s 同様に as a serious 一区切り/(ボクシングなどの)試合 of glandular fever have cruelled the first half of Kokkinakis's career.

The one-time Roger Federer slayer lost his 最高位の altogether in 2017 but is now 支援する in the world's 最高の,を越す 100 and is excited about 規模ing the 高さs again.

"It's been a long seven years since I played Davis Cup and this is incredible," Kokkinakis said.

"Playing in that atmosphere and the 元気づける you guys brought before that final service game gave me goose bumps.

"Thanks Lleyton for 信用ing me. It's been a long time since I played so to play a fifth rubber at home, it's incredible."

Captain Hewitt was 十分な of 賞賛する for his entire team, 含むing twin (テニスなどの)シングルス 勝利者 Alex de Minaur, but paid a special 尊敬の印 to Kokkinakis for his 解決する and resilience.

"For Thanasi to come out and play in a live fifth rubber, until you're put in that position, no one knows what it's like," Hewitt said.

"He 扱うd it 極端に 井戸/弁護士席 and I'm really proud of how he went out there with the composure that he 明白に had after losing a tight match last night (against Marton Fucsovics)."

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