Stosur relishes record Fed Cup crowd as Australia chase first title in 45 years

  • Australia 1-1 Belarus ahead of reverse singles
  • ‘It’s the best crowd we’ve had in Australia’

Samantha Stosur will get another crack in Australia’s Fed Cup semi-final after hitting the ball as sweetly as ever in front of a home crowd she said rivaled anything she had experienced in her 20-year career.

The former US Open champion came within a whisker of upsetting Belarus’s world No 10 Aryna Sabalenka in the opening rubber on Saturday, losing 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in an almost three-hour tussle.

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