U.S. Closes Out Mexico

Mon., Feb. 12, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

The United States, whose wealth of tennis talent allows it the luxury of changing Davis Cup players from round to round, swept Mexico and faces a tougher test against the Czech Republic in April.

Michael Chang, who started the sweep by beating Leonardo Lavalle on Friday, downed Alejandro Hernandez 6-0, 6-2. Todd Martin, who beat Hernandez on Friday, edged Lavalle 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-4 as the Mexicans won their only set of the five matches.

The United States clinched the first-round victory a day earlier when Patrick McEnroe and Patrick Galbraith beat Lavalle and Oscar Ortiz in doubles, essentially turning Sunday’s singles into exhibition matches.

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