Flying start for Zim Davis Cup team

THE Zimbabwe Davis Cup team got off to a flying start when they thumped Kenya 2-0 in the singles of group B match of the 2013 Africa Zone Davis Cup Group III tournament at Cairo’s Smash Tennis Academy in Egypt yesterday.

Tinotenda Chanakira made sure that Zimbabwe drew first blood in the three-match series when he made an easy job of Kenya’s 17-year-old Ibrahim Kibet Yego beating him 6-1, 6-1 to put Zimbabwe 1-0 up. Zimbabwe ensured the singles victory when Mark Fyn comfortably beat Mohammed Fazal Khan 6-2, 6-3.

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