Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool avoided a huge scare to triumph in the doubles and put Great Britain into the final round of Davis Cup qualifying with a 4-0 win over Norway.<\/p>\n
Wimbledon champions Cash and Glasspool were the heavy favourites against inexperienced duo Viktor Durasovic and Nicolai Budkov Kjaer, ranked 491st and 1,187th in doubles respectively.<\/p>\n
The pair raced through the first set but completely lost their way in the second in an entertaining encounter in Oslo.<\/p>\n
Cash and Glasspool then held firm to eventually come through 6-2 2-6 7-6 (7-5).<\/p>\n
After Cash produced a service winner to secure victory, he started to walk back to the baseline, with all of the players thinking it was a 10-point match tie-break.<\/p>\n
However, the umpire intervened to confirm Britain had wrapped up the best-of-five tie at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n
“It means the world,” Glasspool said of securing a first Davis Cup match win.<\/p>\n
“It was a little monkey on our back and now we can both free up a little and hopefully get many more wins.”<\/p>\n
Jacob Fearnley later beat Budkov Kjaer 3-6 6-4 10-7 to make it a clean sweep for Great Britain.<\/p>\n
The returning Jack Draper and Cameron Norrie beat Durasovic and Budkov Kjaer respectively in the singles on Thursday to put Leon Smith’s side in a strong position.<\/p>\n
Draper did not play on Friday and he later withdrew from next week’s ATP tournament in Rotterdam, saying: “While I am feeling positive about how my recovery is going I have been advised not to rush straight out and potentially compete in back-to-back matches. <\/p>\n
“As disappointed as I am not to be back out there, overall I am trending in the right direction.”<\/p>\n
Britain will face either Ecuador or Australia later in the year for a place in November’s eight-team Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool avoided a huge scare to triumph in the doubles and put Great Britain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}