In the 2010 final, Troicki defeated France's Michael Llodra, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3, in the decisive fifth match to clinch Serbia's first Davis Cup championship.
Troicki won his second point for Serbia in the quarterfinal, after beating Carreno Busta in the second singles on Friday.
However, that tie took place on an indoor hard court, not clay as the France one does, and the previous occasion Britain came back from such a deficit was in 1930. This is a great team but it would be nice to have players who are joining these guys on tour, sitting around 75, even 125, 150.
This exit from the competition came courtesy of a comprehensive defeat, Leon Smith's team going down 3-0 Saturday after France's Nicolas Mahut and Julien Benneteau won 7-6 (7), 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 against Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot.
Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans failed to win a set between them at the Kindarena in Rouen, with Edmund beaten 7-5 7-6 (8/6) 6-3 by Lucas Pouille before Evans went down 6-2 6-3 6-3 to Jeremy Chardy.
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Mahut and Benneteau, both 35, have played more than 200 matches together in their careers. "I'm very happy and I hope we go through tomorrow".
Captain Smith said: "Obviously it's tough losing two rubbers but it was always going to be a hard match on clay".
"Do we lack depth?" "But it's a damn sight better than it used to be".
Andy Murray was in France this week hitting on clay, but he was in the south while the British team was in the north. "And we will now have to do it the extremely hard way". "But we have retained our World Group status and that has to be a positive". He then delivered two double faults to offer up a break chance in the sixth game, and Pouille took it for 4-2.
"Nick's got a lot of self belief - it's going to take one hell of a performance to beat him", said Australia captain Lleyton Hewitt. "At that moment the Davis Cup, playing in front of 5,000 fans alongside my best mate, and in front of my whole family, was a long way away", Benneteau said. Steve Darcis and David Goffin of Belgium beat Italy's Paolo Lorenzi and Andreas Seppi respectively on Friday in the singles rubbers to give a 2-0 lead to Belgium.
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