France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga celebrates after winning the first reverse singles match against Serbia's Dusan Lajovic during their Davis Cup semifinal in Lille Larry Ogunjobi Womens Jersey , France, on September 17, 2017.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga clinched a Davis Cup semifinal victory for France against Serbia by defeating Dusan Lajovic 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-2 in Lille on Sunday.
France reached an unassailable 3-1 lead and will face either Belgium or 28-time champion Australia in the final. That clash in Brussels was 2-2 after home favorite David Gofin beat Australia's Nick Kyrgios 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the first reverse singles. Steve Darcis was taking on John Millman in the crucial last clash.
France avenged its loss to Serbia in the 2010 final and qualified for its first final since losing to Switzerland in the title match three years ago. The French will play at home from November 24-26 if Belgium wins, or travel to Australia.
France won the last of its nine titles in 2001 against the Australians.
"I'm relieved and happy," said France captain Yannick Noah. "To win the Davis Cup is something extraordinary. Hopefully I will be able to win it with theses lads."
Noah already captained France to the 1991 and 1996 Davis Cup titles. As a player, he also won the French Open in 1983.
The French did a lap of honor after Tsonga won the decisive point against a depleted Serbian team which gave a tough challenge to the hosts.
Tsonga won his second point for France after defeating 22-year-old debutante Laslo Djere in straight sets on Friday to level the tie at 1-1. Two-time Grand Slam champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert then gave the hosts a 2-1 lead when they beat Filip Krajinovic and Nenad Zimonjic in the doubles match.
Tsonga, who had not played in Davis Cup this season, made a successful return to the French team.
He was overpowered by his rival in the first set but improved and recovered in the second by upping his game when it mattered, after a double fault from Lajovic gave him an early break.
The third set was close with neither player giving an inch on the red clay of the Pierre Mauroy stadium. Lajovic was the first to crack despite saving two set points in the tiebreaker when he dumped a backhand return into the net.
Tsonga missed three break chances in the opening game of the fourth set but converted the fourth after Lajovic made two consecutive unforced errors — a double fault and a forehand in the net. The Frenchman then held to love and broke again as Lajovic showed signs of fatigue following his five-set win over Lucas Pouille on Friday. Tsonga then served out the match.
Earlier in Astana, last year's Davis Cup champion Argentina was knocked out of the competition's top tier with defeat to Kazakhstan.
Mikhail Kukushkin defeated Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (2) in a battle between the teams' top-ranked players to give Kazakhstan an unassailable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five match in Central Asia.
Schwartzman, who as the 28th-ranked player is 50 places above Kukushkin, lost his first two service games in each of the first two sets and struggled to recover.
Argentina — which didn't have its top-ranked player Juan Martin del Potro in Kazakhstan — is the first reigning Davis Cup champion to be relegated since Sweden in 1999.
Argentina was last outside the top-tier World Group in 2001, while Kazakhstan returns following relegation last year.
Comprehensive supply ship Dongpinghu supplies vessels participating in the joint naval exercises. Photo: VCG A Chinese naval fleet departs from the Russian port city of Vladivostok, marking the beginning of the second phase of joint military exercises. Photo: VCG The main armament of Russia's large anti-submarine ship is fired. Photo: VCG
Chinese and Russian ships are now conducting the second phase of joint naval exercises as part of the China-Russia "Joint Sea-2017" exercises.
Starting Friday, the maritime phase takes place in the waters of the Japanese Sea and the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea and is scheduled to be finished on September 26, according to the website of Ministry of National Defense of China.
It's the first time that both sides have extended the drills to the Okhotsk Sea. Russian and Chinese naval forces will also for the first time practice joint anti-submarine excises.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese fleet includes missile destroyer Shijiazhuang, missile frigate Daqing, comprehensive supply ship Dongpinghu, submarine rescue ship Changdao, a deep submersible rescue vehicle, two ship-borne helicopters and marines. The Russian fleet consists of a large anti-submarine ship, a frigate, a rescue ship, a deep submersible rescue vehicle, two ship-borne helicopters and marines.
Vessels from China and Russia will make up two mixed maritime tactical groups according to different exercise objectives. Sailors will also drive deep submergence rescue vehicles to carry out deep submergence rescue operations.
The first stage of "Joint Sea-2017" was held in the Baltic Sea from July 22 to 27. After holding the annual joint sea drills since 2012, Wang Xiaogang, a Chinese naval officer, told the China Military Online that this year "the interoperability between the two navies have reached a higher level in terms of understanding of missions, formulation of operational plans and use of forces."
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