Japan captain Minoru Ueda is upbeat about his team's prospects for the second round of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone in April even though ace Kei Nishikori again could miss the competition.
After Japan wrapped up a 5-0 win over Indonesia on Sunday to set up a tie against either South Korea or India, Ueda said his team learned a lot about itself in the absence of Nishikori, the nation's highest-ranked men's player of all time.
Japan almost lost in the doubles a day earlier, but Indonesia did not pose much of a threat in singles, failing to win even a single set off the host country.