Cameron Norrie defeated Olaf Pieczkowski from Poland with 6-4, 6-4 to protect the location of Great Britain in the Davis Cup qualifications of next year. Norrie’s insured victory over the world No. 484 established an indisputable 3-1 lead for Great Britain after being forced to recover from the setback to start the day with an unexpected defeat.
Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool, the Wimbledon doubles champions, were upset 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8) by Karol Drzewiecki and Jan Zielinski to present Norrie with the task of considering Pieczowski to prevent a decision on the last day.
The victory in the best-of-five group one draw means Great Britain, which Jack Draper missed due to an injury, go to the first round of February.
“The most important thing is that we do the job,” said the captain of Great -Britain, Leon Smith. “We did a very professional work. It was good to get Arthur his debut and it was a winning, which is a great experience for him. Then you have Cam Norrie in your team, which is so rich in experience. We have not dropped a set in the singles, who showed the respect that we gave the opposition.
“We can now look ahead to the trek for next year. I feel that there is a hunger for the players to play, which is really good, so hopefully we can go with a strong team and try to go as far as possible.”
Germany reached the last eight with a 4-0 routing Japan, France achieved a convincing victory over Croatia and Argentina qualified after the finalists of last year, the Netherlands. Austria qualified with a 3-2 victory over Hungary, while Belgium and Denmark commander took 2-0 leads about Australia and Spain.
After Germany took a 2-0 lead in Tokyo on Friday, their victory was completed when Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz save three set points in the second set to beat Yosuke Watanuki and Takeru Yuzuki 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Doubles. Justin Engel then defeated Rei Sakamoto 6-3, 6-7 (2), 10-7.
Germany, last year’s semi -finalists, were the first team because of the qualifications, which were in the culminating round for November in Bologna with the hosts, Italy.
The German captain, Michael Kohlmann, said: “At the moment the dressing room is dancing and singing. We are looking forward to Bologna.”
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Argentina then qualified Andrés Molteni and Horacio Zeballos the Dutch duo of Sander Arends and Botic van de Zandschulp with 6-3, 7-5 beat to take an unattainable 3-0 lead in Groningen.
Hungary, who had lost both games to Austria on Friday, fought back with back-to-back victories in Debrecen. Fabian Marozsan and Zsombor Piros defeated the Austrian pair of Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) before Piros Lukas Neumayer defeated in a singles match to bring Hongary level at 2-2. Austria won the draw in the fifth game, where Juraj Rodionov won a dominant 6-2, 6-1 victory over Marton Fucsovics.
France assured their place in the last eight when Corentin Moutet defeated Marin Cilic and won a 3-1 win over Croatia in Osijek.
Last year’s quarterfinalists, Spain, threatens to eliminate, because Denmark took a 2-0 lead in Marbella, with the world no. 11, Holger Rune, who defeated Pablo Carreño Busta and Elmer Mller with beating Jaume Munar.
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