0-3: The double spelled disaster for Spain, out of the semifinals

Double defeat Aliona Bolsova-Rebeka Masarova in the view of Alicia Barnett-Olivia Nicholls (7-6, 6-2) sealed the hecatomb experienced before Britain (0-3) and left the Spanish team in the semifinals of Billie Jean King Cup.

The British, host of the last episode in glasgowfinish against the odds as first in group C and will play on Saturday for a pass to the final match Australiathe best of B also after losing Belgium by 3-0.

The elimination was all the more painful as Spain only needed to win one of three matches against Great Britain to reach the semi-finals, but they had yet to take a set against an opponent with more strength and their fans

Núria Párrizas, world number 72, and Paula Badosa (13th) are theoretically superior to Heather Watson (133rd) and Harriet Dart (98th), but both are far from the level of Wednesday against Kazakhstan and the crossover was complicated by clear losses in the first two individual matches: Párrizas 6-0 and 6-2, Badosa 6-3 and 6-4 .

The two best bullets wasted, the eliminator is at the expense of double, there where things are leveled and any result can be given. Nobody lost on serve in the first set, but the British scored it in the tiebreak (7-5) and ran for the second set (1-5).

Bolsova and Masarova managed to lift the first ‘match-ball’ and make it 2-5, but their reaction died there, as the British ruled out a 3-0 victory, the only result that gave them a passport to the semifinals .

Spain did not reach the semifinals of Fed CupBillie Jean King Cup in its new name, since 2008, when the current captain, Annabelle Medina, is one of his players. The team won that year China (4-1) in that round before surrendering the final match Russia by 0-4.