France's Julien Benneteau and Nicolas Mahut celebrate winning their Davis Cup Quarter Final match, with their captain Yannick Noah, against Great Britain's Dominic Inglot and Jamie Murray in Kindarena, Rouen, France, August 9, 2017.
I mean look at this!
Murray and Inglot recovered to level the match at 1-1 and earn Great Britain their first - and only - set of the weekend.
Victory gave 40-year-old playing-captain Zimonjic, who has not missed a Davis Cup tie for a decade, a 30th win in the tournament.
The win in the doubles followed Lucas Pouille and Jeremy Chardy taking the opening singles on Friday as Britain suffered in the injury-enforced absence of world number one Andy Murray.
Serbia will face France in mid-September in the Davis Cup semis.
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The British pair earned the first breaks, but failed to convert three of their first-set points at 6-5; they went on compound that by wasting the momentum in the tiebreak after racing to a 4-1 lead. Edmund then frittered away a 5-2 advantage in a second-set tiebreak and eventually fell 7-5, 7-6, 6-3 to heap the pressure on Evans, who had not played on clay for almost three years and has never played an ATP tour event on his least favourite surface.
The results: Quarterfinals: At Brisbane: Australia 2 leads US 1 [Steve Johnson & Jack Sock bt Sam Groth & John Peers 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3]. On one point, Mahut jumped over the fence to return a smash, and played the next return on top of the front row of spectators.
Smith, whose side won the cup in 2015 with the younger Murray, said: "We're better than we used to be, that's for sure ..."
The Italians trailed 2-0 but won the doubles rubber as Andreas Seppi and Simone Bolelli prevailed in another five-set epic to beat Ruben Bemelmans and Joris De Loore 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 3-6 7-6.
The concluding rubber of the quarter-final was a far more serious affair, as Chardy put some gloss on France's win by beating Edmund 6-4 6-4.
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