Milan: Slovakia's Filip Horansky stunned Italy's world number 21 Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(2), 6-3 to level their qualifying tie on Friday for a place in the Davis Cup Finals later this year.
The 12 winning teams from the home-and-away qualifiers on Friday and Saturday will join Croatia, who secured automatic qualification for the 2022 Finals as last year's finalists, and wild cards Serbia and Britain.
The 29-year-old Horansky, ranked 203rd in the world, defeated Sonego in an hour 46 minutes in Bratislava to cancel out Jannik Sinner's hard-fought 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over Norbert Gombos earlier.
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