russia are on the brink of making the fed cup final with a 2 0 lead after anastasia pavlyuchenkova saved a match point to beat germany's sabine lisicki on saturday pavlyuchenkova saved the match point in the second set before going on to beat lisicki 4 6, 7 6 (4), 6 3, after svetlana kuznetsova beat julia goerges in straight sets in the opening rubber pavlyuchenkova said lisicki's power caused her problems: 'in the first set i believed i could win but i couldn't find the rhythm because she plays a bit boom boom' anastasia pavlyuchenkova of russia beat germany's sabine lisicki for a 2 0 lead in their fed cup tie  svetlana kuznetsova had earlier beaten julia goerges in straight sets  both players had problems on their serve   pavlyuchenkova racked up 13 double faults but lisicki's 63 unforced errors proved crucial 'it was very close and i had a match point but she played a good point on that i didn't play a good tiebreaker,' lisicki said the result left russia needing one win from sunday's three matches to reach the final and bag a first fed cup title since 2008
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svetlana kuznetsova beats julia goerges in straight sets in fed cup . anastasia pavlyuchenkova defeats sabine lisicki for 2 0 lead 