- It was absolutely wonderful to play today. I love playing here. It was really good atmosphere and everyone was tagged. This is not something you can participate in every day directly, ”Eriksson tells Sportbladet.
Sweden is leading the first day in the Royal Tennis Hall, where the winner between Sweden and Israel advances to qualifying for the Davis Cup final game next year.
Mikael Ymer played the first singles match against the lesser-known Edan Leshem. The 395-ranked 22-year-old admittedly took the lead in the second set, but Swedenettan turned and won 6-3, 7-5.
Markus Eriksson then stood for a bang when, after taking home a sweaty first set in tiebreak, Dudi Sela zeroed in as the best ranked 29th in the world in the second set.
Tomorrow Eriksson will play double together with André Göransson against Daniel Cukierman and Jonathan Erlich.
Then Mikael Ymer meets Dudi Sela before Markus Eriksson finishes against Edan Leshem.