Katie Boulter beat Australia’s Olivia Gadecki in straight units to make sure Nice Britain reached the United Cup quarter-finals in Sydney.
Boulter knew a straight-set victory from any of the three rubbers in opposition to the hosts would take GB by way of as Group F winners.
Within the first match of the tie, Boulter received 6-2 6-1 inside 70 minutes to safe qualification earlier than Australia received the following two encounters.
Alex de Minaur, Boulter’s fiance, thrashed GB’s Billy Harris 6-2 6-1 earlier than becoming a member of up with Gadecki within the combined doubles and beating Charles Broom and Olivia Nicholls 6-3 7-6 (7-3).
Britain had overwhelmed Argentina 2-1 of their opening tie on the occasion on Tuesday and whereas all three groups within the group completed with the identical factors, GB completed in prime spot as a result of that they had received essentially the most units.
“I have been making an attempt to keep away from all of the stats on all this however we have been at dinner with [former British number one] Laura Robson final evening, and she or he fortunately informed me I needed to win in straight units,” Boulter mentioned.
“So I used to be feeling the strain from final evening.”
Alexander Shevchenko helped Kazakhstan attain the quarter-finals as they knocked out defending champions Germany, who have been with out world quantity two Alexander Zverev due to a biceps damage.
Poland additionally certified, with Iga Swiatek beating the Czech Republic’s Karolina Muchova.
