eturn, said Cilic, the highest-ranked player in the final at 6th position

ATLANTA -- New Orleans overpowered the Atlanta Hawks in the first quarter and kept piling on.The outcome was never in doubt.We just came out hungry, Tim Frazier said. We jumped on them from the start. We continued to fight the whole game and we have to credit everyone who stepped on the court.Frazier had 21 points and 14 assists, Terrence Jones added 17 points and the New Orleans Pelicans won their third straight game with a 112-94 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night.Pelicans forward Anthony Davis returned to begin the fourth quarter after bruising his right knee and missing the second and third periods. Davis, a three-time All-Star and the NBAs leading scorer, finished with 13 points.New Orleans led by 20 at the end of the first quarter and never let up.Dennis Schroder and Kyle Korver each scored 14 for the Hawks, who have lost three in a row. Atlanta was tied for the Eastern Conference lead last week but now begins a five-game road trip playing its worst basketball of the young season.I think it will be great for us, center Dwight Howard said. These early tests are only going to make us stronger.The Pelicans have won five of seven and are 3-0 since Jrue Holiday returned after missing the first 12 games to be with his sick wife. Holiday had 15 points, four rebounds and four assists in 27 minutes.X-rays were negative on Davis, who banged his leg against a chair while chasing the ball out of bounds. He lunged into the fourth row of chairs near the Atlanta bench and came up limping.Davis walked slowly off the floor and into the locker room, but seemed to move with ease while playing 9 minutes of the fourth.Weve just got to do the little things, diving on the floor -- obviously not into the stands -- but rebound the basketball, boxing out and all the little things that matter that probably a lot of the teams overlook, Davis said. When you do the little things, it will take care of everything else.Since beating Milwaukee on Nov. 16, the Hawks lost Friday at Charlotte when Howard was ejected for a flagrant foul in the fourth quarter and Sunday at New York when Schroder had his worst game in his first season as the starting point guard.There was nothing marginal about this loss.New Orleans led by 34-14 after the first quarter and went up by 30 twice in the second. Jones hook shot made it 51-21 at the 8:09 mark and the Pelicans had a 22-point lead at halftime.They were up by 35 midway through the third on Fraziers 3-pointer and began the fourth with a 24-point lead.Every time it got a little closer they made a big shot or got a stop, Hawks forward Kent Bazemore said after scoring one point in 18 minutes. They kept us at arms length tonight.TIP-INSPelicans: Jones was sick earlier in the day and didnt know how much hed be able to play, but he made his first five shots and had no turnovers in 28 minutes. Im still really sick, he said. I just wanted to fight for my team. ... ETwaun Moore scored 15 points and Solomon Hill added 11. ... New Orleans outscored Atlanta 23-9 on fast breaks.Hawks: Reserve F Thabo Sefolosha, who missed the last three games with a mild sprain in his left knee, had six points and three rebounds in 23 minutes. ... Taurean Prince, Tim Hardaway Jr. and Malcolm Delaney each scored 10. ... 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ZAGREB, Croatia -- In a battle of big servers, Argentinas Juan Martin Del Potro beat Croatias Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5 on Friday to leave the two teams tied at 1-1 following the opening singles matches in the Davis Cup final.Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion who is capping a comeback after two injury-hit years, made the crucial break in the 11th game of the fourth set with a spectacular return of Karlovics serve.Del Potro broke the Croat in the opening game of the match and then held on to his serve to take the opening set. In the second, the Argentine appeared poised to clinch the tie-break after having a double set point, but Karlovic saved both and then sent the home crowd into frenzy as he forced two successive errors from Del Potro.Del Potro cruised through the third set to get back into control.After losing the second set, I was a bit frightened, Del Potro said. Ivo was playing real well, but I managed to regain composure.Karlovic, who at 37 became the oldest man to play singles in a Davis Cup final in nearly a century, served 35 aces while Del Potro had 15.After winning the second set, I was hoping to continue like this, but my level went down a bit and his level went higher, said Karlovic who returned to the team after a four-year absence.Doubles are played Saturday while reverse singles are scheduled Sunday, with team captains refusing to reveal which pairs they will use.Croatian team captain Zeljko Krajan said he was satisfied with the result after the opening singles.Overall today I have to say Im satisfied, Krajan said. It was hard to believe that we could have two wins today. We remain positive and optimistic.Argentina is the only nation in the Davis Cups 1116-year history to have reached four finals without winning the title.dddddddddddd Croatia is targeting its second title after beating Slovakia in the final in 2005.Croatia won the opening singles rubber after Marin Cilic struggled past Argentinas Federico Delbonis 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 1-6, 6-2.Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, looked like cruising to the expected easy victory until Delbonis broke the Croat twice in the third set, which ended on a Cilic double fault.I struggled on my return, said Cilic, the highest-ranked player in the final at 6th position. His (high) toss on his serve is a bit specific and it gave me problems.I never said the match would be easy. After all, this is the final, Cilic said.Delbonis started the fourth set 3-0 with a double break, and Cilic conceded the set on serve by netting an easy smash.But after a bathroom beak, Cilic came back renewed and broke Delbonis to start the fifth set on the indoor hard court at Arena Zagreb. Cilic suddenly rediscovered his serving groove, and didnt give Delbonis a chance.I took a short break, talked to the coach, Cilic said. I was determined to start playing better.Cilic broke again in the seventh game, and served out after 3 1/2 hours, two hours longer than most expected.Cilic served 17 aces in the match watched by some 12,000 fans, including thousands of Argentinians who outshouted the home supporters. Among them was former Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona.His serve was the key, Delbonis said. In the first two sets, he was serving unbelievably. When I started making some returns, things changed. ' ' '