SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia beat Britain 4-1 in their first-round Davis Cup matchup but not before Todd Woodbridge lost to Alex Bogdanovic on Sunday, denying the hosts a clean sweep before facing Sweden in the quarterfinals.

Australia secured its victory over Britain and a berth in the quarterfinals on Saturday after Lleyton Hewitt and Todd Woodbridge beat Arvind Parma and Miles Maclagan in four sets in the doubles, making Sunday's singles matches meaningless.

Australia had hoped to breeze through a hobbled British team missing Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski without losing a match to build confidence before facing tougher opponents.

But Woodbridge, who replaced Mark Philippoussis at the last minute and hasn't played singles in nearly two years, lost to 18-year-old Bogdanovic 2-6, 6-7 in the final singles match of the tie.

"It wasn't something I was prepared for," Woodbridge said of his late replacement of Philippoussis, who returned to Davis Cup after a three-year break due to injuries and disagreements with previous coaches.

Earlier on Sunday, fellow Australian Wayne Arthurs, replacing world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, defeated Miles Maclagan 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

"I sent him packing, didn't I," the 31-year-old Arthurs joked to reporters.

Arthurs said his future appearances in Davis Cup singles matches this year would be determined by Hewitt's level of fitness on the last day of play.

Hewitt has already said he wanted to improve an imposing 22-6 win-loss record in Davis Cup and would cut down on tournaments in general to better focus on big matches.

Sweden 3, Brazil 2
HELSINGBORG, Sweden -- Andreas Vinciguerra beat Flavio Saretta 6-1, 7-5, 6-3 in the deciding singles to give Sweden a 3-2 win over Brazil in the first round of the Davis Cup.

Sweden, who next face Australia in the quarterfinals, were 2-1 down after losing Saturday's doubles but Jonas Bjorkman levelled the tie after carving out a 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-1 win over Gustavo Kuerten in the first reverse singles.

Playing in only his second Davis Cup match, Saretta rarely threatened Vinciguerra, who dominated the match with his powerful forehand.

Bjorkman had a tougher task overcoming Kuerten but his solid baseline play eventually reaped the desired result.

Dressed in the Brazilian colours of yellow and green, Kuerten threw his racket in anger after losing the second set but improved his service returns to finally break the Swede in the ninth game of the third on the fast carpet surface.

Having served out to win the set, Kuerten kept up his tactics to repeat the feat in the fourth as Bjorkman started to show signs of frustration.

But Bjorkman kept his cool in the final set to grab a 4-0 lead.

Switzerland 3, Netherlands 2
ARNHEM, Netherlands -- Switzerland clinched a place in the Davis Cup quarterfinal after scraping out a tense 3-2 victory against the Netherlands.

Michel Kratochvil, ranked No. 81 in the world, beat Martin Verkerk 1-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-1 in a nail-biting deciding rubber to set up a last-eight clash against France in April.

Trailing 2-1 after Saturday's doubles match, Switzerland's Roger Federer levelled the tie earlier in the day when he outclassed Sjeng Schalken 7-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the first reverse singles.

A sluggish Kratochvil started badly against Verkerk and was totally outplayed in the first set but he bounced back to win the next two sets in the tiebreaks.

Dutch captain Tjerk Bogtstra was left bitterly disappointed by the defeat and criticised the umpiring in the third set.

"I had the feeling that we were robbed in the third set. The umpire was weak and you can't do anything about that," he said.

"They gave it their all in this fight. They played wonderfully this week but this was an anticlimax."

Verkerk's powerful serve and mighty baseline powerplay put his Swiss opponent under great pressure but Kratochvil weathered the storm, and a boisterous partisan crowd, to win the final set convincingly.

Federer was made to work hard by Schalken but managed to push his game up a gear when it counted to leave the tie finely poised and setting up the crunch final encounter between Verkerk and Kratochvil.

"That's what I deserved, I couldn't have played any better," said Schalken, who reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals and the semi-finals of the U.S. Open last year.

"I was somewhat better in the rallies but Federer's serve remained so strong that I had very little chance."

Schalken battled hard in a tight match but Federer's whiplash forehand and decisive netplay was too much for the Dutchman.

Federer, who easily beat Raemon Sluiter in the opening singles on Friday, ended his match with a thundering ace.

Russia 3, Czech Republic 2
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic -- Russia's Nikolay Davydenko put the Davis Cup holders into the world group quarterfinals after battling past Czech Radek Stepanek 1-6, 7-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 in the deciding singles on Sunday.

The 21-year-old came back from a set down to defeat the stubborn Czech rookie Stepanek to give Russia a 3-2 win and set up a clash with Argentina in the next round.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov's loss to Czech Jiri Novak in the first reverse singles had evened it at 2-2.

"I was a little bit nervous at the beginning because it was my last match and the last point to win for the team but everybody told me I should not be nervous and that if I win I win and if I lose, I lose," said Davydenko.

His opponent Stepanek came close to bursting into tears after the match, doing nothing to hide his disappointment.

"I have never experienced a gloomier moment in my career," he said.

"The atmosphere in the arena pumped me up and so I managed to come back, kept my head up and fought for each point but, unfortunately, this did not last to the end of the match."

The 24-year-old Stepanek, ranked 55th in the world, began brightly, taking an easy first set.

But he stumbled in the decisive moments in an emotional finish to the tie in the indoor clay court in Vitkovice Arena.

Davydenko, ranked No. 62 in the world, smashed four impressive winners to clinch the second set 7-4 in the tiebreak and stormed into a 4-0 lead in the third before sealing it.

Russia had portrayed themselves as underdogs after Marat Safin was forced to miss the contest with a wrist injury.

The visitors suffered a further blow when in-form Mikhail Youzhny fell ill with influenza and had to be replaced with under-achieving Kafelnikov.

Roared on by the enthusiastic crowd, Novak had little trouble in overcoming former world No. 1 Kafelnikov in less than two hours.

"For the first one and a half sets, Kafelnikov looked disinterested as if he was taken by surprise that he had to step in and play the singles match," said Novak.

Kafelnikov said: "I could not find the rhythm. I was not expecting to play, to be honest."

Spain 5, Belgium 0
SEVILLE, Spain -- Juan Carlos Ferrero beat Kristof Vliegen 6-1, 6-4 and Carlos Moya thumped Christophe Rochus 6-2, 6-2 in a whitewash of Belgium.

Spain faces Croatia, which ousted the U.S. team, in the quarterfinals.

Argentina 5, Germany 0
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina --A depleted Germany team, without the services of Tommy Haas, failed to negotiate their first-round opponents for the second year running and suffered an embarrassing 5-0 defeat to Argentina.

France 4, Romania 1
BUCHAREST, Romania -- France rolled onto an April quarterfinal matchup with the Swiss after cruising past Romania.