British No. 1 Katie Boulter secured Nice Britain a quarterfinal spot within the United Cup with a 6-2, 6-1 straight-set victory over Australia’s Olivia Gadecki.
Group GB wanted a straight set victory in any of their matches to ship them by as Group F winners.
Boulter received her match in 70 minutes to place GB 1-0 up and safe qualification. That they had already secured a 2-1 win in opposition to Argentina of their opening conflict on Tuesday.
“I have been making an attempt to keep away from all of the stats on all this however we had been at dinner with [former British No. 1] Laura Robson final night time, and he or she fortunately informed me I needed to win in straight units,” Boulter stated.
“So I used to be feeling the strain from final night time.”
Boulter’s fiance, Australia’s Alex de Minaur, confronted Billy Harris within the males’s singles and secured a straight-set victory.
The world No. 9 then secured a second straight-set victory alongside companion Gadecki once they beat British duo Olivia Nicholls and Charles Broom.
Regardless of the 2-1 defeat to Australia, Boulter’s victory secured workforce GB the quarterfinal spot over the hosts.
