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26 Spring 2020 ITF World Road to MADRID March's Davis Cup by Rakuten Qualifiers completed the line-up for the Finals and saw 12 nations join automatic qualifiers Spain, Canada, Great Britain and Russia, and wild cards France and Serbia, in Madrid. Ecuador became the first nation from the Qualifiers to reach the Finals after Gonzalo Escobar and Diego Hidalgo teamed up in the doubles to dispatch Ben McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama and secure a shock 3-0 thrashing of Japan in Miki. John Millman, meanwhile, provided the springboard for Australia's advance to the Spanish capital at the expense of Brazil with two come-from- behind singles victories against Thiago Seyboth Wild and Thiago Monteiro. Australia, one of only two nations in the Qualifiers to have reached the knockout stages of the 2019 Finals, dispatched their South American rivals 3-1 in Adelaide. It was a similar story and scoreline in Nur-Sultan as Alexander Bublik booked Kazakhstan's ticket to the Finals with victory – his second singles triumph of the tie – against Robin Haase of Netherlands. In a behind-closed-doors affair at the Circolo Tennis Cagliari, Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli joined forces to guide Italy safely past the potential banana skin of Korea, Rep. The hosts were dominant throughout and posted a 4-0 win. Austria will be one of five nations making their Finals debut after Novak sparked wild celebrations in a Croa a 3-1 India Japan 0-3 Ecuador Germany 4-1 Belarus Colombia 3-1 Argen na Sweden 3-1 Chile

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