2014 Davis Cup final results: Roger Federer leads Switzerland to first title

Roger Federer defeated Richard Gasquet in straight sets on Sunday, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, securing the first-ever Davis Cup title for Switzerland. Federer’s singles victory put the Swiss up 3-1 over France in the best-of-five final round, and the competition ended when both sides agreed not to play the final match.

Federer and Stan Wawrinka gave Switzerland the advantage with a doubles win on Saturday. Federer, who lost his singles match on Friday’s opening day, played three matches in the three-day Davis Cup final.

“You’re unbelievably happy and relieved,” Federer told the Associated Press. “We wanted this clearly very badly, especially being up 2-1. You inch yourself closer and closer. Clearly seeing Stan out there, the rest of the team supporting you, gives you an extra push. It was definitely one of the better feelings in my career, no doubt about it. So much nicer to celebrate it all together.”

It was just the second Davis Cup final for Switzerland, 22 years after its first final round appearance.

France was without its top player, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who suffered an arm injury on Friday in his singles loss to Wawrinka. That left Gasquet to face Federer on Sunday in the first of two scheduled singles matches. Gael Monfils, who defeated Federer in singles on Friday, was set to battle Wawrinka in the fifth match, but that was canceled once Switzerland clinched the title.