Great Britain (GB) secured their place in the final round of Davis Cup qualifying after Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool won the doubles on Friday to seal a 3-0 win over Norway.
Wimbledon champions Cash and Glasspool beat Norwegian pair Nicolai Budkov Kjaer and Viktor Durasovic 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (7/5) to send Great Britain through to the next round in September.
“It means the world to get our first point and win the tie for GB,” Cash said.
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“We were ready for everything, we never take for granted that a match is going to be easy and we’re happy to get it across the line.”
Great Britain surged into a 2-0 lead on Thursday as Jack Draper made a triumphant return from an arm injury before Cameron Norrie won the second singles rubber in Oslo.
Hosts Norway were without their top player Casper Ruud, the world No. 12 who pulled out of the tie to spend time with his partner and newborn child.
“We’ve done a really good job and played some really good tennis,” Draper said. “Bit different with Casper not playing, but we’ve done our job.”
Great Britain are to face either Australia or Ecuador for a place in November’s eight-team Davis Cup Finals.
In Duesseldorf, Germany, the qualifying second seeds Germany, without world No. 3 Alexander Zverev, took a 2-0 lead over Peru with two straight-sets singles wins.
Yannick Hanfmann beat Gonzalo Bueno 6-4, 6-4, and Jan-Lennard Struff dispatched Juan Pablo Varillas 6-4 6-2.
Croatia and Denmark were level 1-1 in Varazdin, Croatia, after the opening singles, and Japan and Austria were also all-square in Tokyo. Elsewhere this weekend, Serbia and Chile go head-to-head in Santiago in a bid to set up a tie with Spain.
Ten-time winners France take on Slovakia in a tie and Belgium, surprise semi-finalists last year, play Bulgaria in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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