Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman and Asa Carlsson are braced for a showdown with Australia in the final of the Hopman Cup tennis mixed teams tournament in Perth today after winning a vital qualifying tie against Switzerland 2-1.
In their first appearance in the final of the 11-year-old event, the Swedes will clash with hard-hitting Mark Philippoussis and sensational 15-year-old schoolgirl Jelena Dokic, who has taken the competition by storm this week.
Carlsson is ranked 92nd while Dokic is 341st in the senior rankings, though she is the reigning world junior number one.
Bjorkman is ranked 24th and Philippoussis, who is ranked 15th, are well matched for today's final. Bjorkman beat Ivo Heuberger 62, 6-0 in the men's singles yesterday after Carlsson had lost to world number two Martina Hingis 2-6, 2-6 in the women's singles.
Bjorkman and Carlsson then teamed up to snatch the mixed doubles.
They won the doubles 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, though tournament organisers said the Swedes qualified for the finals - on a count of games and sets won - as soon as they had won the second set.
