French team Kristina Mladenovic, Caroline Garcia, Alize Cornet, Pauline Parmentier, Fiona Ferro and captain Julien Benneteau celebrate after defeating Australia to win the Fed Cup.
It was France’s third title and first since they beat the United States 16 years ago, piling more misery on seven-time champions Australia who have now lost all nine of the last Fed Cup finals they have appeared in. “I’m the proudest man on the planet right now, I’m so proud of my girls and my team. They deserve it because they fought for a long time for this title,” ecstatic France captain Julien Benneteau said.For Mladenovic and Garcia it was sweet revenge after they lost the deciding rubber in the 2016 final against the Czech Republic.“Three years ago we failed on the last step of the tie. Today we just wanted to take this little revenge for ourselves and it’s not describable how we feel right now.
The doubles clash was set up by Ajla Tomljanovic hauling the home team back into the tie by beating France’s Pauline Parmentier 6-4, 7-5.Croatian-born Tomljanovic, in her Fed Cup debut for Australia, had been thrashed 6-1, 6-1 by Mladenovic in the opening singles rubber on Saturday.“We gave everything today, we fell just a fraction short. That happens,” said Molik.
Barty started where she left off after the “double bagel” of Garcia on Saturday, breaking Mladenovic’s first service game with a net volley to extend her streak to 15 games this weekend.
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