Thanasi Kokkinakis, Alex de Minaur, Max Purcell and Matt Ebden had to beat Switzerland 3-0 to progress to the finals. They delivered.
Australia’s Davis Cup team have produced a bravura display to whitewash Switzerland in a must-win tie and roar into theLleyton Hewitt’s team knew they would guarantee their tickets to the eight-team knock-out finals if they could beat the Swiss 3-0 in Saturday’s final group stage tie in Manchester – and Thanasi Kokkinakis, Alex de Minaur and the doubles pairing of Max Purcell and Matt Ebden duly obliged with scintillating performances.
It had been a bold call first-up by Hewitt as Kokkinakis is lower-ranked than two of his teammates, Purcell and Jordan Thompson, and had admitted to suffering from nerves earlier in the week when he lost to British newcomer Jack Draper after serving for the match.
De Minaur, who’s risen to No.12 on the ATP computer, suffered a rude shock when broken in the opening game by world No.101 Huesler, but once he wrested back control by breaking back in the sixth game he always looked in a different class, racing to his ninth Davis Cup singles win in his last 11 rubbers in just 73 minutes.
Ebden and Purcell have gone their separate ways this season as Purcell has concentrated more on his flourishing singles career but they’ve looked like world-beaters all week again, just as they were when winning Wimbledon in 2022.AAP
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