Japan failed in its bid to advance to November's Davis Cup Finals, a tennis championship featuring 18 national men's teams, after losing to Ecuador in the qualifying round on Saturday.Ben McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama lost to Gonzalo Escobar and Diego Hidalgo 7-6(3), 6-3 in the doubles rubber at Bourbon Beans Dome on Saturday, a day after Japan opened its campaign with two defeats."Both players in our opposing doubles pair are left-handed, but we prepared well. They won long rallies and points at important moments. They played better than we expected," Japan captain Satoshi Iwabuchi said…READ FULL ARTICLE
