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Out Spain, defending champion, in a dramatic quarter-finals of the Davis Cup tennis tournament on Saturday after it fell to France in zero / 3, but Spain hopes will be covered by this calamity to walk the national team against the Netherlands in the final match of World Cup football in South Africa.



Spain went to the quarter-finals without world number one, Rafael Nadal, who got a week break for the treatment of a knee injury, before traveling to South Africa to follow up the final match for the World Cup.

And on the pitch coated steel, beat Frenchmen Julian Benito and Michael Llodra on the Bilateral Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, 6 / 1 and 6 / 2 and 6 / 7 (6 / 8) and 7 / 6 (7 / 5) in doubles, to meet France in the semi-final next September with the winner of Argentina and Russia.

France did not achieve a victory over Spain for 87 years in the Davis Cup, came the defeat to deprive Spain of the approaching completion of the U.S. in the Davis Cup three times in a row.

Benito said: "It is a wonderful charm, win over reigning the last two editions is enormous, we were able to resolve things today in the doubles."

In Moscow, fell Russia, winning the title twice, in front of Argentina 1 / 2 after the victory Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zibalos on Nikolay Davydenko and Igor Kunitsyn 7 / 6 (9 / 7) and 6 / 4 and 6 / 7 (3 / 7) and 6 / 1.

It took the pair to more than three hours to win and a step closer to a new semi-final.

In Split, Croatia, Serbia made a 2 / 1 after the victory Janko Tipsarevic, Nenad Zimonjic to Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodij 6 / 3 and 6 / 2 and 6 / 4.