Thanasi Kokkinakis, Alex de Minaur, Max Purcell and Matt Ebden delivered scintillating performances against the Swiss to send Australia into the eight-team knock-out finals.
Australia’s Davis Cup team have produced a bravura display to whitewash Switzerland in a must-win tie and roar into the finals of the men’s “World Cup of tennis”.
It mean the Australians, who finished runners-up last year, will be able to return to Malaga in November with their eyes set on going one better than last year by lifting the title for the first time in 20 years, in fact, since Hewitt led them to victory as a player.“We gave ourselves a great opportunity last year and the boys got a taste for it. We want to try and push a little bit harder and see if we can climb that mountain, and I feel like I’ve got the boys that are able to do that.
Then there was a sense of inevitability about the reunited “M and M” pairing of Ebden and Purcell winning the third straight rubber of their undefeated week, as they outclassed Stricker and Huesler 6-2 6-4.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.
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