Australia reached the ultimate of the largest workforce occasion in girls’s tennis for the nineteenth time after successful the decisive doubles on a match tiebreaker to beat host nation Britain 2-1 in a thriller on the Billie Jean King Cup on Saturday.
Facing the seven-time winners in Sunday’s title match will probably be Switzerland, which took an unassailable 2-0 lead over the Czech Republic earlier than needing to play doubles.
The Swiss have by no means gained the competitors previously generally known as the Fed Cup, shedding the ultimate in 1998 and once more final 12 months.
Storm Sanders had already put some extent on the board for the Australians with a gap singles win and he or she then partnered Sam Stosur to a 7-6 (1), 6-7 (5), 10-6 victory over Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls in a nerve-racking doubles match in Glasgow.
Sanders beat Heather Watson 6-4, 7-6 (3) earlier than Britain fought again by way of Harriet Dart, who gained 7-6 (3), 6-2 in opposition to Ajla Tomljanovic.
Britain was within the semifinals for the primary time since 1981, surpassing pre- occasion expectations.
Australia, the top-ranked girls’s workforce, will head into the ultimate trying to win the occasion for an eighth time, and a primary time since 1974. The Australians misplaced within the ultimate in 2019.
The Swiss have additionally had current expertise of shedding the ultimate — Russia beat them within the 2021 title match — however they’re again there for an additional shot after wins within the singles for Viktorija Golubic and Belinda Bencic.
Golubic beat Karolina Muchova 6-4, 6-4 and Bencic noticed off Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 7-6 (6).
