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Aus win from 0-2 down

Facing a 0-2 deficit after dropping the opening singles matches on Friday, Australia came back to win on Sunday when Sam Groth and Hewitt won their matches in the reverse singles. Hewitt clinched the quarterfinal with a stirring 7-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over Aleksandr Nedovyesov. Groth opened play on Sunday by beating Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6.

Murray seals it for gbr

Andy Murray won his reverse singles rubber against Gilles Simon 4-6, 7-6, 6-3, 6-0 to give Great Britain an unassailable 3-1 lead, leaving James Ward’s singles match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a formality. This is Britain’s first semi since 1981. They face Australia in the semi-final.

Belgium in semis after 16yrs

Belgium reached its first semis since 1999 when Ruben Bemelmans and Kimmer Coppejans won the doubles for an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Canada on clay in Ostend. Bemelmans and Coppejans beat Daniel Nestor and Adil Shamasdin, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in 2 1/2 hours.

... Face Argentina next

Argentina will travel to Belgium after putting away Serbia 3-0 thanks to pair of Carlos Berlocq and leonardo Mayer sweeping aside Nenad Zimonjic and Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-4, 6-1.

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