GREAT BRITAIN 2, AUSTRALIA 1
Glasgow, Scotland – Hard (Indoors)

Great Britain is one match win away from reaching the Davis Cup final for the first time since 1978 (l. to United States). The nine-time champion leads 28-time titlist Australia 2-1 after a dramatic doubles rubber on Saturday.

Andy Murray and Jamie Murray secured a tense win over Sam Groth and Lleyton Hewitt 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4 in just under four hours.

Since 2013, Andy Murray has helped Great Britain win 14 of its 16 rubbers. On Sunday, he’ll take on Australia’s Bernard Tomic in the first reverse singles rubber.

“It was an incredible match, to come back from the disappointment of losing the fourth set,” said Andy Murray on BBC Television. “We kept creating chances, we stuck together like brothers should and managed to come up with enough good returns. We had to keep the energy up at the beginning of the fifth set – it was important for us to get a good start.”

Jamie Murray added, “We let it slip a bit but we kept fighting and got right back on it. It was so good, it was so noisy, it was magic.”

The Murrays, playing together on Scottish soil at tour-level for just the second time, could not convert one match point opportunity at 6/5 in the fourth set tie-break with Groth crossing for an intercepted volley. Groth and Hewitt took the encounter to a fifth set, when the Murrays both went for the same volley. Groth’s nerve failed him on serve at 4-5 in the decider and the Murrays capitalised on his loss of concentration.