![]() ![]() Ostapenko came into the semifinal with a 2-1 lead in her three previous head-to-head maches against Rybakina with her wins in Linz 2019 and Eastbourne 2021. Earlier this year she won the title in Indian Wells and reached two finals at the Australian Open and Miami. Rybakina has moved up to world number 5 for her first time in her career after reaching the final in Rome. Rybakina came back from 1-4 down in the second set to clinch the win after 1 hour and 33 minutes. Isner will become the top us player next Monday and will return to the top 10 for the first time since May 2014 with an equal or better result than Pablo Carreno Busta, who will play his semifinal against Alexander Zverev. Del Potro leads 6-3 in their nine head-to-head matches, but the US player won three of their past five clashes. Isner will play against this year’s Indian Wells Juan Martin Del Potro in today’s Miami semifinal. We certainly like our team this year”, said Isner. All five of us are singles players with doubles skills. Jim Courier has many options at his disposal. “The luxury we have is that we have five extremely doubles players as well. The USA is the most successful nation in the history of the Davis Cup with 32 titles, but they have not won this tournament since 2007. ![]() We are not looking past this team by any means, sure we are the favourites on paper our team is very strong but it’s going to be a tough match”, reflected Isner. Sometimes players don’t play as well as they are capable of because of the pressure and sometimes players can have the pressure on them and play at an extremely high level. “You throw the rankings out of the window in Davis Cup, it’s a completely different animal. For this reason Isner is not taking anything for granted. The Davis Cup has often been a different story compared to the ATP Tour and rankings will not matter at all in the quarter final tie between the USA and Belgium. We are a pretty happy-go-lucky team so I think we have that on our side” I certainly remember that, but I haven’t thought about that. It was 2012 and we lost to Spain in the semifinals. The US team captained by Jim Courier will feature three top 20 players Jack Sock, Sam Querrey and John Isner plus Ryan Harrison and Steve Johnson. The home team will be favourite against Belgium, who will not rely on their best players David Goffin, who is unavailable after an eye injury in Rotterdam last February, and Davis Cup specialist Steve Darcis. ![]() Isner thinks that the US team can rely on many options in both singles and doubles and this could make the difference. In the semifinal Isner lost to Nicolas Almagro in five sets and to David Ferrer in four sets. Isner led the US team to the Davis Cup semifinals in 2012 with wins against Roger Federer in the first round and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon in the second round. ![]()
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