Awesome Britain are is win far from the Davis Cup final after Andy and Jamie Murray beat Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth in the doubles.
The emotional 4 6-3 6-4 6-7 (6-8) 6-4 triumph gives Britain a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five tie in Glasgow.
On the off chance that Andy Murray wins the opening opposite singles match on Sunday, Britain will be through to a first last since they completed runners-up in 1978.
In November, the victors will confront either Belgium or Argentina in the final.
Murray is relied upon to confront Australian number one Bernard Tomic and, if necessary, Dan Evans would tackle Thanasi Kokkinakis in the last singles match, despite the fact that the line-ups can be switched up to an hour prior to play begins at 13:00 BST.
On television Andy Murray said, “It was an incredible match, to come back from the disappointment of losing the fourth set.
“We kept creating chances, we stuck together like brothers should and managed to come up with enough good returns.
“We had to keep the energy up at the beginning of the fifth set – it was important for us to get a good start.”
Jamie Murray: “We let it slip a bit, but we kept fighting and got right back on it. It was so good, it was so noisy, it was magic.
“Scottish people don’t get the chance to see Andy play very much and when they do they let him know it.”
Lleyton Hewitt: “All Davis Cup doubles is a lot of ebbs and flows. We just kept fighting.”
Sam Groth: “Obviously it hurts to lose a match like that, but for me it’s an unbelievable thing to be able to pull on the green and gold and play in front of a crowd like that.”
Both groups had their chances, and every one of the four men persisted dunks and surges in structure, yet it was the siblings who won it following a nerve-clanking three hours and 56 minutes.
When they drove 30-0, with Andy Murray serving for triumph, it showed up the win would be wrapped up in four sets.
Be that as it may, the British pair couldn’t change over and a motivational Hewitt, playing in his last Davis Cup battle, dragged Australia once more from the verge.
The initial two sets were part with a break each, and things were searching dreary for the home side at 4-1 down in the third.
Groth was demonstrating the overwhelming man on the court and the yells of “Come on!” from 34-year-old Hewitt were progressively capable of being heard among the 8,000 generally home fans.
It took a splendid rally on resistance from both Murrays to set up the urgent crush spirit at 4-2 down, and two recreations later Jamie Murray jumped to secure a raving success, thundering in joy as a second break was secured.
Andy Murray made it five amusements in succession to seal the set and put the siblings on course for the same sort of turnaround they oversaw against France in the quarter last.
The guests battled back in the fourth and had three set focuses at 5-4, yet when Jamie Murray struggled back on serve and the siblings then broke Hewitt for 6-5, the triumph was inside of sight.
From a 30-0 shortfall, a grating Hewitt strike gave Australia a help, and they sent shockwaves around the coliseum by edging the tie-break after he spared a match point at the net.
An exciting decider saw Britain surges into a 3-0 lead, Australia peg them back to 3-3, and Groth then spare four break focuses in diversion seven, as the force swayed from one side of the net to the next.
The end at long last went ahead Groth’s serve after he cleared out an arrival that dropped on the pattern before Andy Murray jumped at the net and with a forehand return.
A second match point had arrived, and this time Groth could just control a volley long, sending the Emirates Arena into a condition of some anarchy as the Murray siblings embraced in festivity.
