If at first you don’t succeed, tie, tie again. The Mid-Atlantic’s Christina McHale helped her country take a 1-0 lead over Belarus by defeating Anastasia Yakimova 6-0, 6-4 in singles play this afternoon in Worcester, Massachusetts. The 19-year-old Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey resident made it look easy in the first before shaking off nerves in the second set to prevail.
The USA now sports a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series which concludes tomorrow, as Serena Wiliams defeated Olga Govortsova 5 and 0.
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