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World Team Tennis defending champion Springfield Lasers improved to 4-0 on the season on Thursday with a 21-17 triumph over the Washington Kastles.
Miomir Kecmanovic, the 19-year-old World No. 66, got the Lasers out of the blocks fast with a 5-2 victory over Yoshihito Nishioka in men’s singles. Marta Kostyuk defeated Anna Blinkova in a tiebreaker to win women’s singles and Jean-Julien Rojer paired with Blinkova to blank Nathan Pasha and Kaitlyn Christian to finish the contest.
In other WTT Action, Nicole Gibbs thumped Sloane Stephens 5-1 while James Ward defeated Ulises Blanch by the same score to power the Orange County Breakers over the New York Empire 22-15 in the Bronx.
The Breakers improved to 1-2 while the Empire fell to 1-3.
Elsewhere, Donald Young and Taylor Townsend took care of their singles business to power the Philadelphia Freedoms to a 24-19 win over the Orlando Storm at the USTA National Campus in Orlando.
Young defeated Feliciano Lopez 5-2. Young and Lopez have split four ATP matches, with Young taking their last meeting at Roland Garros in 2014.
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The Freedoms stretched their winning streak to four and currently sit just a half game back of the undefeated Lasers for first place.