Americans beat Swedes at World Team event

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05/16/2011 - Dusseldorf, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Last year's runner-up, the United States, defeated Sweden 2-1 Monday at the World Team Cup tennis event, a final clay-court French Open tune-up.

Two-time French Open runner-up Robin Soderling of Sweden overcame American Sam Querrey 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), while the U.S. got a win from John Isner when the 6-foot-9 slugger swatted little-known Swede Christian Lindell 6-4, 6-1 in singles action at Rochusclub.

The best-of-three clash was decided in the doubles, when an American duo of Isner and Mardy Fish topped a Swedish tandem of Simon Aspelin and Robert Lindstedt 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 10-4, as the third set was decided via super tiebreak.

The U.S. and Sweden, both four-time winners of this event, are in the four- nation Red Group, while four other countries makeup this week's Blue Group. The Americans lost to fellow four-time winner Argentina in last year's final here.

The United States hasn't won this round-robin tournament since 1993.

The Americans will battle Kazakhstan with a pair of singles matches on Tuesday, as Fish will face Andrey Golubev and Querrey will tangle with Mikhail Kukushkin.

In some Blue Group action on Day 2, the four-time champion and host Germans finished off a 3-0 whipping of Serbia, and Russia ultimately doused Spain, 2-1.

Germany headed into Tuesday with a 1-0 lead against the Serbs and it posted two more wins for the victory when Florian Mayer mauled Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-2 and a German pairing of Christopher Kas and Philipp Petzschner edged out a Serbian duo of Janko Tipsarevic and Nenad Zimonjic 5-7, 6-3, 10-7.

The Russians had already beaten the four-time champion Spaniards with a pair of singles victories here on Sunday. The Spaniards got a doubles win by Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, who drilled a Russian tandem of Victor Baluda and Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-2.

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