Caroline Garcia was replaced in the reverse singles by Pauline Parmentier for France.
Australia ahead 2-1 on serve and my battery is about to die
No more live blog coverage sorry
While there is some life in the battery great credit to Ajla Tomljanovic to keep Australia in contention for the Cup.
Her straight sets win over Pauline Parmentier was based on solid ground strokes and a big serve. The vital service breaks came at the very end of each set so the match was a closely fought affair on base stats.
More specifics later.
Tomljanovic saved two break points in the opening game of the match, then served four successive love games. In between, Parmentier was untroubled maintaining pace, if dropping a few points in doing so, until game eight where a break point was saved in a nine point game.
Serving to stay in the set at 4-5, Parmentier found herself down 15-40, but could only save one of the two set points and Tomljanovic put Australia ahead 6-4.
Set two began with the fifth straight love game from the serve of Tomljanovic, responded with the second nine point game from the French racquet. Five games passed without drama, then a double break occurred - first Parmentier suffered and at 4-6 2-4 appeared doomed to the locker room post haste.
However, Tomljanovic lost focus and wasted two game points in the seventh game, and Parmentier grabbed the first break point offered by the Australian in the set and converted it for 3-4.
Serve was held by both players until Tomljanovic led 6-5. Serving to stay in the match, Parmentier repeated her effort of game ten in set one and fell behind 15-40. This time she couldn’t save either of the set points which were also match points, and Australia won 6-4 7-5.
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