A pair of 15-13 doubles epics stole the Davis Cup headlines on Saturday.

Preview for this weekend’s Davis Cup quarterfinal clashes.

Former world No. 1 Roger Federer does his annual skip-and-defend (skip the first round, hope your team wins), and now will have to play to keep Switzerland from falling out of the World Group later this year. Swiss Stan Wawrinka won the opening singles against Lukas Rosol, but it was all Czech from then on as Tomas Berdych took control of the tie, winning his first singles over Swiss Henri Laaksonen (?!?), the doubles with Rosol over Wawrinka-Marcos Chiudinelli 24-22 in the fifth set, then his second singles over Wawrinka in four sets. Thanks Rog, from the Swiss team, and the Czech team. The Czechs will next travel to Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals.

The longest doubles match in tennis history was won by the Czechs today in Davis Cup first round play.

Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic leads his Serbian team into Belgium this weekend for the first round of Davis Cup.

“I was playing very aggressive today; I wanted be the one who is active, who is controlling the game,” Stepanek said. “It paid off, even though I lost the third set. I had no doubt I was on the way.”

Radek Stepanek led his Czech Republic team to its second ever Davis Cup win.

After the Czech doubles win today, Tomas Berdych has the Davis Cup final on his racket Sunday in reverse singles.

Spain travels to Prague this weekend to take on the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final.

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