Great Britain reach United Cup quarter-finals: Who will Katie Boulter, Billy Harris face in last eight?

Great Britain progressed to the quarter-finals of the United Cup successful Sydney contempt suffering a 2-1 decision to big federation Australia successful their 2nd Group F tie.

The Brits already had 1 ft successful the past 8 aft conquering Argentina 2-1 successful their inaugural battle, and Katie Boulter each but made definite of her nation's progression successful her showdown with Olivia Gadecki connected Wednesday.

The British women's fig 1 comfortably defeated Gadecki 6-2 6-1, but her fiance - Australia's Alex de Minaur - past thrashed Billy Harris by the aforesaid scoreline to instrumentality the necktie to a deciding doubles rubber.

De Minaur and Gadecki teamed up to look disconnected with Charles Broom and Olivia Nicholls, and it was the Aussies who prevailed 6-3 7-6[3] to implicit a 2-1 fightback success.

Great Britain's decision coupled with Argentina's earlier triumph implicit Australia means that each 3 nations successful Group F decorativeness with 1 triumph each, arsenic good arsenic 3 matches won and lost, but the Brits person conscionable pipped their 2 foes to apical spot.

Alex Ward's squad precocious to the past 8 arsenic radical winners acknowledgment to their superior percent of sets won - 58% - portion besides prevailing successful 51% of their games, marginally amended than Argentina and Australia's 50%.

Who volition Great Britain look successful United Cup quarters?

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As Group F winners, GB person been rewarded with 1 of the astir daunting tests planetary tennis could propulsion astatine them; they indispensable pit their wits against Poland for a spot successful the semi-finals.

The Poles - led by erstwhile satellite fig 1 Iga Swiatek - defeated some the Czech Republic and Norway successful Group B to cruise into the quarters, and Boulter is acceptable to play the 2nd lucifer of the quarter-final necktie against nary different than Swiatek.

Harris - who is deputising for the injured Jack Draper - faces an arsenic challenging conflict with two-time Masters champion and erstwhile Wimbledon semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz archetypal up, though the second did suffer some of his singles matches successful Group B to Casper Ruud and Tomas Machac.

If Poland and GB are tied astatine 1-1 pursuing the 2 singles matches, Swiatek and Hurkacz volition squad up to look Broom and Boulter successful the deciding doubles battle; the victor volition gain a day with Kazakhstan successful the semi-finals.

GB's quarter-final with Poland takes spot astatine the Ken Rosewall Arena successful Sydney connected Thursday, starting astatine 5.30pm section clip oregon 6.30am UK time.

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