Romania were beaten 3-0 by Greece in a play-off to stay in Davis Cup World Group I after Marius Copil and Victor Cornea lost their doubles match against brothers Petros and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Romania lost 3-0 to Greece in the Davis Cup

Kopil and Cornea started the match better and won the first set in a tiebreak 7-6(4), but the Tsitsipas brothers came back to win the next set 6-3, 6-4.

The match lasted two hours and 22 minutes.

​Davis Cup, Greece – Romania schedule

The match between Greece and Romania in the Davis Cup World Group I play-off takes place at the Lyosia Olympic Sports Hall in Athens.

• Saturday, February 3

Stefanos Tsitsipas – Marius Kopil 6-3, 6-4

Aristotle Thanos – Nicholas Ionel 4-6, 6-3, 6-2

• Sunday, February 4

Stefanos Tsitsipas / Petros Tsitsipas – Marius Kopil / Viktor Vlad Cornea (4) 6-7, 6-3, 6-4

Stefanos Tsitsipas – Nicholas Ionel

Aristotle Thanos – Marius Child.

Greece – Romania, team composition

Romania: Marius Copil (294 ATP singles), Nicolas David Ionel (265 ATP), Cesar Kretsu (364 ATP), Luca Preda (1095 ATP) and Viktor Vlad Cornea (69 ATP doubles).

Greece: Stefanos Tsitsipas (10 ATP), Alexandros Skorilas (753 ATP), Ioannis Xilas (1286 ATP), Aristotelis Thanos (1428 ATP) and Petros Tsitsipas (95 ATP doubles).

Know:

• This is the third meeting of the two teams in the Davis Cup, each of them has one victory.

• In 1933, Greece won 4-1 in Athens in the second round of the European zone.

• Romania won in 1970 with a score of 5-0 in Bucharest, in the quarters of the European zone, the victories were scored by Ilie Nestase, Ion Ciriac, Viorel Marku, Sever Muresan and the pair of Ilie Nestase/Ion Ciriac.