{"id":16769,"date":"2026-02-06T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/06\/pakistan-take-charge-davis-cup-tie\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:35:34","slug":"pakistan-take-charge-davis-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/06\/pakistan-take-charge-davis-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Take Charge in Davis Cup Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Muzammil Murtaza<\/strong> delivered a tense opening win for Pakistan, edging past Senegal&#8217;s Nicolas Jadoun 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 to give Pakistan a 1-0 lead in the Davis Cup tie.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced campaigner <strong>Aqeel Khan<\/strong> reinforced that advantage in the second singles, fighting back to beat Seydina Andre 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 and push Pakistan to a 2-0 position at the end of the opening day.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16770 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/media\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-7.30.49-PM-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/media\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-7.30.49-PM-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/media\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-7.30.49-PM-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/media\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-7.30.49-PM-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/media\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-7.30.49-PM-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/media\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-7.30.49-PM.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Davis Cup tie will continue on Friday with the doubles match, where Pakistan&#8217;s pairing of Muzammil Murtaza and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi are scheduled to face Senegal&#8217;s Seydina Andre and Nicolas Jadoun. With the doubles still to come, Pakistan need just one more victory to seal the Group II encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The early momentum from Murtaza and Aqeel gives Pakistan a strong platform in this Davis Cup Group II clash, keeping hopes high for a decisive result on home interest and national pride in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis Cup Pakistan lead 2-0 after Muzammil Murtaza and Aqeel Khan won singles; Pakistan need one more victory to clinch the Group II tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16772,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769\/revisions\/16772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}