Troicki Provides Heroics For Serbia Again; Germany Score Away Win Over Croatia

© AFP/Getty ImagesViktor Troicki won two singles rubbers to give Serbia a quarter-final berth.

SERBIA 4 INDIA 1
Novi Sad, Serbia; Hard, Indoor

Viktor Troicki ensured Serbia progressed to the Davis Cup quarter-finals in July after he beat Indian Somdev Devvarman 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 in two hours and 43 minutes on Sunday. Troicki committed 58 unforced errors to Devvarman's 67.

"It is a great feeling to be in the last eight of the competition because this means we have stayed in the World Group, while it also gives us a chance to carry on with out title defence," said Troicki. "We are through to the quarterfinals, we know it’s going to be very tough against Sweden and we hope to have our best player Novak Djokovic back for that tie."

Janko Tipsarevic beat Karan Rastogi 6-0, 6-1 in 62 minutes in the dead fifth rubber to give Serbia a 4-1 win. In 2010, Serbia became the 13th nation to win the coveted Davis Cup trophy with victory over France in the final in Belgrade.

SWEDEN 3 RUSSIA 2
Boras, Sweden; Hard, Indoor

Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Andreev both won dead singles rubbers on Sunday, but Sweden won the tie 3-2 overall. Tursunov defeated Simon Aspelin of Sweden 7-5, 6-2 in 71 minutes, while Andreev hit 21 winners and seven aces to beat Joachim Johansson 7-6(8), 6-4 in 86 minutes.

CROATIA 2 GERMANY 3
Zagreb, Croatia; Hard, Indoor

Germany has beaten 2005 champion Croatia for the third time in four meetings since 1995.

Philipp Petzschner, one half of the reigning Wimbledon doubles champions (w/Melzer), kept his nerve to beat Croatia's Ivo Karlovic 6-4, 7-6(3), 7-6(5) in just under two and a half hours for a 3-2 win in Zagreb. Karlovic hit the fastest-ever recorded serve in Saturday's doubles rubber.

Earlier in the day, Marin Cilic has won his second singles rubber for Croatia to take the tie to a fifth and decisive rubber. Cilic hit 35 winners and 14 aces to defeat German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-3, 7-6(6) in just under two hours and 40 minutes.

AUSTRIA 2 FRANCE 3
Vienna, Austria; Clay, Indoor

Jeremy Chardy helped France to its fifth straight win over Austria by beating Martin Fischer 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-3 in the deciding rubber in Vienna.

Chardy, who is 3-0 lifetime in Davis Cup singles rubbers, hit 11 aces and committed just nine unforced errors for  victory in two hours and 39 minutes. France face Germany in the last eight of the World Group.

In the fourth rubber, Jurgen Melzer required just 18 minutes to win the fifth set against Gilles Simon of France to draw Austria level at 2-2. Melzer recorded a 7-6(7), 3-6, 1-6, 6-4, 6-0 win to beat Simon in four hours and eight minutes.

"The crowd kept me going,” said Melzer. “They were always behind me.  They pushed me through. This is important, this is Davis Cup, this is what it's all about. I stayed tough, I dug deep.” The first set lasted 72 minutes and involved six service breaks.