Australians to face either Canada or Italy in the final after Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell beat Olympic doubles champions
It was a triumph straight out of captain Hewitt’s gritty playbook as a doubles pairing who had never played together in the Davis Cup were left staring at defeat before rallying to down the formidable Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic 6-7 , 7-5, 6-4.
There was shock earlier with news the Wimbledon-winning partnership of Purcell and Matt Ebden wouldn’t be starting, with Hewitt revealing later Ebden had an injury concern. Thompson fired some dazzling winners as they broke Mektic’s serve from nowhere at 5-5 in the second set to change the course of the match and both then produced a salvo of remarkable winners to break for 4-3 in the third.
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