• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Tennis Panorama

Tennis News and Information, Tournament Coverage and Features

Tennis Panorama News

Tennis news and information, tournament coverage and features

  • Home
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Staff
  • RSS
  • Features
  • Tournament Coverage
  • Social Media
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
    • pinterest
  • Podcast
    • ITunes
  • Tennis Panorama Archive 2008-2017
You are here: Home / tennis news / Davis Cup in New York City – South Africa Moves into the World Group I Play-offs with 4-0 Win over Venezuela

Davis Cup in New York City – South Africa Moves into the World Group I Play-offs with 4-0 Win over Venezuela

September 19, 2021 by Tennis Panorama News

In the foreground, South Africa Captain Christo van Rensburg celebrates Davis Cup tie win, with Raven Klaasen (L) and Lloyd Harris (R) on court in the background

(September 19, 2021) FOREST HILLS, QUEENS, New York – South Africa completed a 4-0 sweep against Venezuela to advance to the World Group 1 Play-offs for 2022 on Sunday in Forest Hills Stadium at the historic West Side Tennis Club.

The South African doubles team doubles team of Lloyd Harris Raven Klaasen closed the door on team Venezuela, Dimitri Badra and Luis David Martinez 6-2, 6-4 to clinch the World Group 2 tie 3-0. The world No. 31 Harris was a late substitution for Ruan Roelofse, who was supposed to play doubles with Klaasen.

Lloyd Harris (L) and Raven Klaasen (R)

“I wouldn’t say it was always the plan, but I think once we went two-zero up we try to be as clinical as possible finishing the tie,” said Harris of the change. “Also for future ties, you, never know what the situation is. And I’ve been playing a little bit more doubles, so we haven’t played together before. So we thought it was a great opportunity to get a match and under our belt.”

“We’ve tried to play together once or twice and it didn’t work out, so it was a good opportunity for us to see how things click out there and I think it worked pretty well,” said Klaasen. “We were kind of always thinking about what’s the best chance was to win a match. So we take it day by day and we’ve discussed playing doubles before. So this opportunity worked out well.”

Roelofse won the lone dead rubber singles match played, beating Dimitri Badra 6-4, 7-6(5) to end the tie at 4-0 for South Africa.

Raven Klaasen

The doubles team talked about why they play Davis Cup and why it’s important to them:

Klaasen: “I mean, for the most part during the season, you’re playing individual sports, so the environment and the history of this obvious competition is quite unique. And I spent time as a youngster watching our older guys play Davis Cup and they kind of set the bar for us. And then we were trying to kind of leave our own mark on Davis Cup for South Africa, because every time you play a tournament, you do represent South Africa, but this is nice where you actually put the green and gold on and to have a team around you is a fun aspect of tennis.”

Lloyd Harris

Harris: “Yeah. I mean the same, I mean, it’s a great week where you get to spend some time with your fellow South Africans, get to train and compete together, have them on the side, supporting each other. And obviously, you have all of a sudden the whole of South Africa watching from back home. So it’s very special occasion. It’s, it’s unique from the rest of the tour, like Raven said.”

Harris has been in New York for about a month now. “I been here for a while. This is my fourth week. So I feel like I know New York a little bit better than I did ever before. But yeah, I definitely did get some spots, some breakfast spots and dinner spots that I really enjoyed. And other than that, I did go do some sightseeing and stuff with my girlfriend. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, no, it was also the last week we got to spend some time with the team for some guys that I don’t get to see every week. So yeah, it’s been a really good couple of weeks actually. I mean, if I take my result in the US Open, if I take us winning three-zero in Davis Cup, I mean, I’m very happy with how things turned out here.”

I’m very happy to see our boys preform,” said South Africa Captain and former pro  Christos van Rensburg. captain. “Having a player like Lloyd on my team raised the whole level of my team because they have been practicing with them the whole week.”

SOUTH AFRICA defeated VENEZUELA 4-0

September 18-19, 2021 at Forest Hills Stadium, West Side Tennis Club – Forest Hills, Queens, New York, USA (hard – outdoor)

Lloyd Harris (RSA) d. Brandon Perez (VEN) 6-0 6-0
Philip Henning (RSA) d. Ricardo Rodriguez (VEN) 6-4 6-4
Lloyd Harris/Raven Klaasen (RSA) d. Dimitri Badra/Luis David Martinez (VEN) 6-2 6-4
Ruan Roelofse (RSA) d. Dimitri Badra (VEN) 6-4 7-6(5)
Philip Henning (RSA) v Brandon Perez (VEN) – not played


Karen Pestaina is the woman behind Tennis Panorama News. She freelances for various media outlets in and out of tennis and has worked for many a broadcast news entity in the New York City market. She witnessed her first live tennis match as a young child at Forest Hills Stadium when Guillermo Vilas upset Jimmy Connors to win the 1977 US Open.

As South Africa Leads Venezuela 2-0, Forest Hills Stadium Creates New Memories for Davis Cup in World Group 2

Share

Filed Under: Davis Cup/Fed Cup, Features, Front Page News, news conference, tennis news, tournament coverage Tagged With: Brandon Perez, Christo van Rensburg, Davis Cup, Dimitri Badra, Forst Hills Stadium, Lloyd Harris, Luis David Martinez, Philip Henning, Raven Klaasen, Ricardo Rodriguez-Pace, Ruan Roelofse, tennis, Venezuela, West Side Tennis Club

Primary Sidebar

Search Tennis Panorama


Subscribe to Tennis Panorama via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new articles by email.

newsnow_f_ab

cheap tennis shoes from China on DHgate.com

planetbarkad

Tennis Panorama on Twitter @TennisNewsTPN

Tweets by @TennisNewsTPN

Interested in advertising on this site? Please fill out a contact form.

RSS ATP World Tour

  • Djokovic To Make Biggest World No. 1 Jump In History
  • ATP Tennis Podcast: Australian Open Recap
  • Brain Game: Djokovic Dominates In His Domain To Dismiss Tsitsipas
  • Djokovic: 'I Don't Have Intentions To Stop Here'
  • Ivanisevic Reflects On Djokovic & Nadal's Battle For Grand Slam History

RSS WTA Tour

RSS ESPN AP Tennis Headlines

  • Advantage, Novak Djokovic in the race to be tennis' GOAT January 29, 2023
  • On top Down Under: Djokovic ties men's record January 29, 2023
  • How Novak Djokovic won his 10th title in Melbourne January 29, 2023
  • As it happened: Djokovic defeats Tsitsipas in straight sets January 29, 2023
  • Czech pair win Aussie doubles for 7th Slam title January 29, 2023

More Tennis Sites

15-lovetennis (French website)

ATP World Tour

BBC Tennis

ESPN

Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated

International Tennis Federation (ITF)

New York Times Tennis page

Tennis Atlantic

Tennis Channel

Tennis with an Accent

Tennis Identity
USA Today

Tennis TV

WTA

ZooTennis.com






Footer

Subscribe to Tennis Panorama via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this website and receive notifications of new posts by email.

January 2023
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Dec    

Categories

© by TennisPanorama 2014 and beyond
 

Loading Comments...