Norrie Seals Gb's Place In Davis Cup Qualifiers

British number 2 Cameron Norrie sealed Great Britain's spot successful adjacent year's Davis Cup qualifiers pinch triumph complete Poland's Olaf Pieczkowski.

Norrie produced a master performance, dropping conscionable 3 points connected serve, to triumph 6-4 6-4 against nan world number 484 and springiness Britain an unassailable 3-1 lead successful nan best-of-five World Group 1 tie.

Wimbledon champions Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool had missed an earlier chance to seal Britain's spot successful February's first information erstwhile they mislaid their doubles rubber.

The world number 1 pairing, making their Davis Cup debuts, were stunned 3-6 6-3 7-6 (8-6) by Karol Drzewiecki and Jan Zielinski.

That result put nan onus connected Norrie to clinch nan necktie for Britain aliases consequence a deciding match, and he came up pinch nan required consequence to gain precocious fives from nan squad astatine courtside.

Britain had needed conscionable 1 triumph connected Saturday to return triumph successful nan necktie aft Norrie and Arthur Fery, making his Davis Cup debut, won their respective singles matches connected Friday.

Defeat successful Poland would person meant a February play-off which could person resulted successful relegation to World Group 2, but alternatively they are heading backmost to nan elite level.

Norrie survived a scare connected Friday successful a tight title against Tomasz Berkieta, classed 511 places beneath him, to get Britain disconnected to a winning start.

But pinch nan necktie successful Britain's grasp, nan world number 34 produced an businesslike capacity against Pieczkowski.

A break successful nan ninth crippled of nan first group proved decisive arsenic Norrie held his nervus to service retired nan opener to love.

As he did against Fery connected Friday, Pieczkowski showed signs of fatigue successful group 2 while Norrie's level did not waver and he won each constituent down his ain serve.

The 30-year-old seized his 1 and only break opportunity successful nan seventh crippled and held service from that constituent connected without immoderate concerns to wrap up a polished triumph and put nan necktie to bed.

That consequence will person travel arsenic a alleviation to Cash and Glasspool, who had started good successful nan doubles but yet mislaid retired successful a melodramatic tie-break.

They were possibly emotion nan unit of representing their state for nan first clip successful Davis Cup, arsenic good arsenic nan effects of playing a important measurement of tennis this twelvemonth - including historical wins astatine Queen's and Wimbledon earlier their caller daze first-round exit from nan US Open.

Dan Evans, a personnel of Britain's 2015 Davis Cup winning squad, said of nan doubles pairing connected Tennis Channel: "I person to beryllium honest, I thought nan British guys together arsenic a squad were beautiful poor. They were not arsenic 1 retired there.

"They were not bouncing disconnected each other, not helping each different enough, and nan Polish squad were a amended team."