It was almost as exciting as it could be in the Fed Cup final between France and Australia. It was all decided in the fifth and decisive match in the double between Kristina Mladenovic / Caroline Garcia and Ashleigh Barty / Samantha Stosur.

In the final it was 6-4 6-3 and France's third Fed Cup victory so far.

Revenue for France

- There are a lot of emotions to share (with Garcia edited) as we failed to win three years ago, says Mladenovic according to AP. We just wanted to take this revenge for ourselves.

France lost the final against the Czech Republic by just 3-2 2016.

Perhaps the most important victory of the finals came when Kristina Mladenovic defeated world set Ashleigh Barty, 6–2 4–6 6–7 (1–7).