Portugal is on the verge of securing access to the World Group play-off, something that happened only once in the history of Portuguese tennis in the distant year of 1994.
João Sousa placed Portugal close to a historic moment when, conquering the Ukrainian Mykyta Mashtakov, the second point of the Group I tie of the Euro-African zone of the Davis Cup in tennis.
The national number one crowded the young Ukrainian, winning by 6-0, 6-3 and 6-0, and left the Portuguese team to a point of realizing the dream of playing, for the second time in history, the play- Of access to the desired World Group, the elite of the main competition for Tennis Nations.
