<p>Daniil Medvedev sealed Russia's place in the Davis Cup final with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jan-Lennard Struff giving his team an unassailable 2-0 lead over Germany on Saturday.</p>.<p>The world number two backed up Andrey Rublev's 6-4, 6-0 win over Dominik Koepfer in the first rubber to set up a clash with Croatia on Sunday.</p>.<p>The Russians, like the Croats, will be bidding for a third win in the competition.</p>.<p>"Russia is without doubt the strongest team in this Davis Cup," said Croatia's veteran number one Marin Cilic.</p>.<p>"It will be a very tough mission for us facing them. But we have our own strengths.</p>.<p>"It is our third final in five years, which is something exceptional, and does not happen very often," added the 33-year-old 2014 US Open champion.</p>.<p>The Croats' task is certainly a formidable one.</p>.<p>The Russians strength in depth is unquestionable with four players all ranked in the top 30 (Rublev is fifth, Aslan Karatzev is 18th and Karen Khachanov 29th).</p>.<p>They have lost just one rubber in the whole tournament, Rublev going down to Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez in their first match.</p>.<p>Croatia are hoping to win one of their singles and leave it down to their unbeaten world number one doubles pairing of Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic.</p>.<p>The Wimbledon and Olympic champions have yet to drop their service in the competition.</p>.<p>"They have the best doubles pair in the world, thus we will have to try and wrap this up in the singles," said Medvedev.</p>.<p>This the Russians did clinically against the Germans -- admittedly without their number one Alexander Zverev who opted to miss the finals.</p>.<p>Rublev ruthlessly exposed the gap between himself and the 54th-ranked Koepfer.</p>.<p>Rublev delivered nine aces, won 54 points -- opposed to 32 for his opponent -- and took all four break points.</p>.<p>"I was focused from the beginning to the end," said 24-year-old Rublev, who eased to victory in 50 minutes, with Medvedev needing just 17 more to beat Struff.</p>.<p>Germany later claimed a consolation win in the doubles with Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz seeing off Aslan Karatsev and Karen Khachanov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.</p>.<p>Once that was done and dusted their venerable non-playing captain Shamil Tarpsichev could enjoy a cake baked to honour his 100th match in charge with almost 45 years in his role.</p>.<p>The organisers were denied the mouthwatering prospect of Medvedev potentially facing world number one Novak Djokovic as the Croats ousted Serbia 2-1 in the other semi-final on Friday.</p>
<p>Daniil Medvedev sealed Russia's place in the Davis Cup final with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jan-Lennard Struff giving his team an unassailable 2-0 lead over Germany on Saturday.</p>.<p>The world number two backed up Andrey Rublev's 6-4, 6-0 win over Dominik Koepfer in the first rubber to set up a clash with Croatia on Sunday.</p>.<p>The Russians, like the Croats, will be bidding for a third win in the competition.</p>.<p>"Russia is without doubt the strongest team in this Davis Cup," said Croatia's veteran number one Marin Cilic.</p>.<p>"It will be a very tough mission for us facing them. But we have our own strengths.</p>.<p>"It is our third final in five years, which is something exceptional, and does not happen very often," added the 33-year-old 2014 US Open champion.</p>.<p>The Croats' task is certainly a formidable one.</p>.<p>The Russians strength in depth is unquestionable with four players all ranked in the top 30 (Rublev is fifth, Aslan Karatzev is 18th and Karen Khachanov 29th).</p>.<p>They have lost just one rubber in the whole tournament, Rublev going down to Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez in their first match.</p>.<p>Croatia are hoping to win one of their singles and leave it down to their unbeaten world number one doubles pairing of Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic.</p>.<p>The Wimbledon and Olympic champions have yet to drop their service in the competition.</p>.<p>"They have the best doubles pair in the world, thus we will have to try and wrap this up in the singles," said Medvedev.</p>.<p>This the Russians did clinically against the Germans -- admittedly without their number one Alexander Zverev who opted to miss the finals.</p>.<p>Rublev ruthlessly exposed the gap between himself and the 54th-ranked Koepfer.</p>.<p>Rublev delivered nine aces, won 54 points -- opposed to 32 for his opponent -- and took all four break points.</p>.<p>"I was focused from the beginning to the end," said 24-year-old Rublev, who eased to victory in 50 minutes, with Medvedev needing just 17 more to beat Struff.</p>.<p>Germany later claimed a consolation win in the doubles with Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz seeing off Aslan Karatsev and Karen Khachanov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.</p>.<p>Once that was done and dusted their venerable non-playing captain Shamil Tarpsichev could enjoy a cake baked to honour his 100th match in charge with almost 45 years in his role.</p>.<p>The organisers were denied the mouthwatering prospect of Medvedev potentially facing world number one Novak Djokovic as the Croats ousted Serbia 2-1 in the other semi-final on Friday.</p>