United Cup: Great Britain beat Spain 3-1 to reach play-off

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Dan EvansDan Evans is the satellite fig 27

Great Britain reached the play-off circular successful the inaugural United Cup with triumph implicit Spain successful Sydney.

Dan Evans gave Great Britain an unassailable 3-1 pb successful the best-of-five contention astatine the Ken Rosewall Arena.

The British fig 2 defeated Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-3 1-6 6-3 aft Harriet Dart mislaid 6-7 (6-8) 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 to satellite fig 13 Paula Badosa.

On Saturday Cameron Norrie bushed Rafael Nadal and Katie Swan saw disconnected Nuria Parrizas-Diaz to enactment Britain 2-0 ahead.

Britain volition play the United States, Germany oregon the Czech Republic successful Wednesday's Sydney City Final, which acts arsenic a play-off for the semi-finals.

"We've had a spot of luck, a fewer withdrawals," said 32-year-old Evans. "We've done unbelievably good connected the tribunal arsenic well.

"We pridefulness ourselves connected squad tone and moving hard retired determination for each other."

The mixed-team tourney involves six round-robin groups of 3 teams, played successful Sydney, Perth and Brisbane.

GB, captained by Tim Henman, beat Australia 3-2 successful their opening tie.

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