Spain and Serbia have crashed out of the Davis Cup tournament while France, Switzerland and Germany have advanced to the World Group quarter-finals of the 114-year-old competition on Saturday.
2010 winners and last year's finalists Serbia were beaten by Switzerland with an unassailable 3-0 lead, France defeated Australia by the same scoreline while Spain, which was without world number one Rafael Nadal was sent off from the tournament by Germany.
According to Sport24, Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga clinched the vital rubber for France with a 5-7, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 7-5 success over Chris Guccione and Lleyton Hewitt and earned France a last eight clash with Germany on April 4-6.
The report mentioned that Germany's Tommy Haas and Philipp Kohlschreiber needed nearly three and a half hours to seal a 7-6(7/5), 6-7(9/11), 7-6(9/7), 6-3 over Spain's Fernando Verdasco and David Marrero.
Switzerland's all important point was delivered by the pairing of Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lanmer, who saw off Nenad Zimonjic and Filip Krajinovic 6-6 (7/3), 3-6, 6-6 (7/2), 6-2.
Serbia was weakened by the absence of star turns Novak Djokovic and Janko Tipsarevic and the report mentioned that the Swiss will meet either Kazakhstan or Belgium who are playing in Astana with the hosts leading 2-1.
