Brunei finish second in Pool ‘B’ of Davis Cup meet

Fadhil Yunus

Brunei Darussalam tennis workforce completed second in Pool ‘B’ of the 2022 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group IV after recording two victories in three matches on the Sri Lanka Tennis Affiliation Courts in Colombo, Sri Lanka final Thursday.

The nationwide workforce secured a 2-1 victory over Maldives of their closing group match to arrange a gathering with Kyrgyzstan within the third- and fourth-place playoff at this time.

Brunei taking part in workforce captain Billy Wong Kee Loong bought his nation’s first level of the sequence after a 6-1 6-1 victory over Maldives’ Aiham Shiyam.

The workforce captain continued his spectacular type within the meet having solely dropped three video games in his final two singles’ ties.

Brunei’s Mohd Aiman Abdullah misplaced 1-6, 6-2, 1-6 in opposition to Abdulla Faaih Fazeel, permitting Maldives to sq. the best-of-three match.

Nonetheless, Brunei led by the pairing of Mohd Aiman and Wong emerged victorious within the decisive third match with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Maldives’ duo of Abdulla Faaih and Hussain Nasif.

Earlier within the competitors, Brunei fell to a 3-0 loss to eventual group winners Iraq earlier than bouncing again with a historic 2-1 victory over Yemen.

The Sultanate have gained 4 video games with Wong contributing within the singles matches in addition to a pair of doubles matches led by him and Mohd Aiman.