The Canadian Davis Cup team trails Ecuador 2-0 after the first day of action at the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Americas Zone Group I second round tie at the Guayaquil Tenis Club in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Vasek Pospisil dropped the opening singles rubber to Ivan Endara 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 while Philip Bester was unable to even the score falling 7-6(4), 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-2 to JulioCesar Campozano in the second match of the evening.

Endara gave Ecuador a 1-0 lead by coming out strong and energetic against a somewhat shaky Pospisil who was playing his first live Davis Cup singles match. After going down 3-0 to start the match, Pospisil regained some composure and started to hold his usually powerful serve. It looked as though he had turned it around after saving a match point, winning the third set in a tiebreak and going up a break 3-1 in the fourth, but Endara stormed back to win five straight games and the match. Pospisil is the highest-ranked singles player in the tie at No. 191.

Australia will wait until tomorrow morning to finalise their Davis Cup reverse singles line up after taking a 2-1 advantage against China in Beijing this afternoon. Lleyton Hewitt and Chris Guccione turned on a near faultless display to defeat Li Zhe and Gong Xao Ming 6-4 6-4 6-4 before 2500 fans at the Beijing International Tennis Centre.

The Australians need to win one of the tomorrow's two singles rubbers to clinch a spot in the World Group Playoff in September.

It was a good opening day for the away sides in the Davis Cup Quarter-finals on Friday as Spain and France took a strong 2-0 lead on the road against the United States and Germany respectively. Spain's clay court specialists, David Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez were surprisingly stronger than the American powerhouses Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish on the hard courts of Austin, Texas, while the French pairing Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils produced a solid performance against Florian Mayer and Philipp Kohlschreiber respectively.

The battle of the Wimbledon quarter-finalists Feliciano Lopez and Mardy Fish went the way of the Spaniard as Lopez bounced back from losing the fourth set in a tiebreak to seal the win in 5 hard fought sets 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 8-6.

Defending champions Serbia held a comfortable 2-0 lead against Sweden after the opening round of singles rubbers in Halmstad, Sweden to all but guarantee their participation in the semifinals of the Davis Cup. The Serbs' squad was a bit depleted after World Number 1 Novak Djokovic's late withdrawal with a foot injury, but despite that they were massive favourites going into the tie against a Sweden team which was missing their own number one, world number 5 Robin Soderling.

Viktor Troicki gave much-fancied Serbia a great start in their opening rubber, beating the hosts' Michael Ryderstedt 6-3, 6-1, 6-7, 7-5 on the indoor hardcourt that was chosen as the venue for this tie. Djokovic's replacement, world number 25 Janko Tipsarevic followed suit, looking in control of his match against Ervin Eleskovic before the Swede retired in the early stages of the second set after hurting his knee.