Great Britain’s women’s and junior teams both reached the semi-finals of their respective events on the third day of the BNP Paribas World Team Cup.
The GB juniors beat the USA in their crucial final round-robin group tie after a deciding doubles rubber to avenge their loss to the USA in last year’s semi-finals.
Lauren Jones made a good start to the opening singles rubber against American Krystal Kelley, but Kelly fought back for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory. After Alfie Hewett had beaten Chris Herman 6-1, 6-1 to force the tie into the doubles rubber, Hewett and Jones put in a confident performance to defeat Herman and Kelley 6-3, 6-3, earning top seeds Great Britain a semi-final against second seed the Netherlands on centre court on Thursday.
"I'm very pleased, it's been a tough couple of days,” said Hewett. “We had a long match against Spain yesterday and we've both recovered very well. I knew today would be very tough, too, especially the doubles, but we both played very well and did what we needed to do, so we're looking forward to tomorrow."
Jordanne Whiley beat Lola Ochoa 6-2, 6-2 en route to Great Britain’s 3-0 win over Spain in the final set of women’s World Group round-robin ties. Lucy Shuker put the tie beyond Spain after defeating Elena Jacinto 6-3, 6-2, before Louise Hunt partnered Whiley to ease past Jacinto and Ochoa 6-0, 6-2.
Great Britain, third seeds for this year’s World Team Cup, face second seeds Germany in Thursday’s semi-finals as Hunt, Shuker and Whiley attempt to reach their second World Team Cup final since 2009.
In the men’s World Group Great Britain got off to a confident start, beating Korea Republic 3-0. After Marc McCarroll beat Ji-Hwan Lee 6-3, 6-0, world No. 6 Gordon Reid earned 6-0, 6-1 win over Sam-Ju Kim to clinch the tie before partnering David Phillipson to beat Kim and Sang-Ho Oh 6-2, 6-0.
Great Britain now have a must-win contest against two-time former champions Sweden on Thursday in an attempt to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 2010.
Great Britain’s quad team signed off their last round-robin tie on a successful note after winning the doubles rubber of their contest against the USA, despite the Americans having already won the tie.
Adam Field managed to get one game on the board against London 2012 quad singles bronze medallist Nick Taylor, while world No.1 David Wagner gained a 6-1, 6-1 win over Antony Cotterill.
However, Field and Cotterill dug deep to beat Bryan Barten and Greg Hasterok 7-5, 1-6, (11-9) after a championship tie-break in the doubles rubber. After a ret day on Thursday, the Great Britain quad team play Canada for seventh place.
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