Australia, Spain, France and the USA are amongst 12 nations who certified for the following stage of the Davis Cup on Saturday.
Australia, the 28-time champions, got here from 2-1 down in opposition to Hungary to win each Saturday’s singles matches and progress.
Defending champions Russia have been banned from the event following their nation’s invasion of Ukraine.
The primary stage of the finals which shall be performed in September.
There are 16 groups concerned, with Croatia, Nice Britain and Serbia having already certified.
Davis Cup chiefs will resolve subsequent week who will change Russia.
These 16 groups will then grow to be eight for the quarter-finals in November.
Thanasi Kokkinakis, the Australian Open doubles champion, received the decisive singles rubber 6-4 6-4 in opposition to Hungary’s Zsombor Piros in his first Davis Cup match in seven years.
The 25-year-old received his first ATP singles title in Adelaide in January after which triumphed within the Australian Open doubles with Nick Kyrgios, incomes him a recall to Lleyton Hewitt’s Australia crew.
“Thanks Lleyton for trusting me, it has been a very long time since I performed and to play a fifth rubber at dwelling has been unbelievable,” he mentioned.
After Hungary received the doubles to go 2-1 up, world quantity 30 Alex de Minaur beat Thirty fifth-ranked Marton Fucsovics 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 at Sydney’s Ken Rosewall Enviornment to degree scores earlier than Kokkinakis sealed the tie in Australia’s favour.
Spain, the six-time champions, superior with relative ease regardless of lacking the companies of Rafael Nadal.
World quantity 15 Roberto Bautista Agut beat Romania’s Marius Copil 6-2 6-3 to clinch a 3-1 win.
France, 10-time Davis Cup champions, beat Ecuador 3-0 in Pau and the USA, who’ve received the trophy a file 32 instances, eased previous Colombia by the identical rating.
Outcomes
Australia 3 Hungary 2
South Korea 3 Austria 1
France 4 Ecuador 0
Spain 3 Romania 1
Belgium 3 Finland 2
Netherlands 4 Canada 0
Italy 3 Slovakia 2
Kazakhstan 3 Norway 1
Sweden 3 Japan 2
Argentina 4 Czech Republic 0
Germany 3 Brazil 1
USA 3 Colombia 0
