ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Ruben Bemelmans and Olivier Rochus claimed a doubles win Saturday that kept Belgium alive in its Davis Cup first-round series against Kazakhstan.
Singles wins Friday by Mikhail Kukushkin and Andrey Golubev gave Kazakhstan a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series but Bemelmans and Rochus pulled off a 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) win over Kukushkin and Evgeny Korolev by fighting off 16-of-18 break points they faced.