The Netherlands reached the Davis Cup final for the first time as Tallon Griekspoor fought back to win his singles match and claim a 2-0 win over Germany.
Botic van de Zandschulp, who defeated Rafael Nadal last game of the Spaniard's career on Tuesday he gave the Dutch team a 1-0 lead on Friday when he beat Daniel Altmaier in first singles.
The number 80 in the world rankings needed 10 match points to achieve a thrilling 6:4, 6:7 (12:14), 6:3 victory.
Griekspoor prevented the best-of-three match from going into a deciding doubles match by coming from a set down to beat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (4-7), 7-5, 6-4.
“We believed in ourselves so much, we always felt like this was possible and to do it now feels incredible,” Griekspoor said.
The Netherlands will face defending champions Italy – led by world number one Jannik Sinner – or Australia in the final on Sunday.
“It's more unique that we do it because we don't have that top five player, we don't have that top 10 player, we don't have that top 15 player – but it's a team effort,” they said Netherlands captain Paul Haarhuis said.
“We have to believe in ourselves, whoever is against us, that we can do it. This year it's time. We’re here and we’re going to make it count.”
Three-time winners Germany were looking to reach the final for the first time since they last won the title in 1993.
They were without world number two Alexander Zverev, who said last month he would miss the Davis Cup final to “recover and get back to 100%” for the 2025 season.
