Roger Federer suffered defeat for the second day in succession as United States completed a surprisingly comfortable victory over Switzerland in the Davis Cup World Group first round in Fribourg Saturday. Former world No. 1 Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka needed to win the doubles to keep the tie alive after Friday's two singles went to the US, but after a good start the Swiss pair lost 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 to Mardy Fish and Mike Bryan. It was payback time for Fish who suffered two heartbreaking defeats in marathon matches in last year's quarterfinals against Spain's Feliciano Lopez and David Ferrer. Holder Spain joined the Americans in the quarterfinals as it moved 3-0 ahead against Kazakhstan in Oviedo to give new captain Alex Corretja a pleasing start in the absence of Ferrer and Rafa Nadal. Last year's runner-up Argentina and the Czech Republic also moved smoothly through with a day to spare against Germany and Italy respectively. Japan has an uphill battle in its first World Group tie for 26 years, 2-1 down at home to Croatia. Nikolay Davydenko and Mikhail Youzhny kept Russia alive in its tie in Austria with victory in Saturday's doubles meaning the visitor now trails 2-1. The US next plays Canada or France who are level 1-1 in their tie. Spain's Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez needed less than two hours to beat Evgeny Korolev and Yuriy Schukin 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 Saturday. Argentine doubles pair David Nalbandian and Eduardo Schwank beat Germans Tommy Haas and Philipp Petzschner 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to give the south Americans a 3-0 advantage.
