Davis Cup debutant Alun Jones added some real life lustre to his fictional tennis deeds by helping Australia to a 4-1 win over Taiwan in their Asia-Oceania Zone Group One tie in Kaohsiung.

Australia will host a second round tie in April in Townsville against Thailand, who beat Kazakhstan 3-2 in Almaty.

It will be the first Davis Cup tie between Australia and Thailand.

With Australia enjoying an unassailable 3-0 lead, Jones and doubles specialist Paul Hanley played the reverse singles in place of first day winners Lleyton Hewitt and Chris Guccione.

South African-born Jones 27, gave Australia a 4-0 lead with a 4-6 6-3 6-2 win over 16-year-old Tsung-Hua Yang.

Hanley's Davis Cup singles record dropped to 0-2 as he lost 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 to Ti Chen.

Jones discovered the attention he received for playing a fictional tennis player in the 2004 movie Wimbledon, had followed him to Taiwan.

He was surprised to be asked about it at the post match press conference, but was happy to have marked his Davis Cup debut with a victory.

"It was good to get a win and it was actually something of a relief playing somebody that I should be beating," said Jones, who at 125 was ranked 559 places higher than his opponent.

Jones was not the first Australian to come up against the talented teenager who lost to rising star Bernard Tomic in last month's Australian Open junior men's singles final.

"It was great to get the win, I was a little bit nervous going out there to start with and it showed.

"I lost my first service game of the match and it was an uphill battle from then on and the kid came out firing and he was serving quite big.

"I had a couple of chances in the first set and didn't take them and was actually quite surprised with the level he played, I wasn't expecting him to come out at that level.

"I just started changing the pace ... I started looping my forehand quite a bit and a few slices here and there and just tried to mix it up, even my serve, a few kick serves and things like that.

"I managed to get on top midway through the second set and it was plenty comfortable from then on."

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