 A poor performance by Wawrinka (lost his first singles and the doubles) almost caused the elimination of the Swiss team, so that Federer had to play a deciding fifth rubber (after Wawrinka had regained his form to win the fourth rubber) against Golubev, which he won.With this victory, Roger Federer succeeded Jakob Hlasek as the Swiss player with most singles wins (35).For the semifinal against Italy, a new record attendance for a Swiss tennis game was set with a public of 18,400 in the Geneva Palexpo.