The host nation needed to win all three rubbers in straightsets to snatch a final spot off the unbeaten Spanish pairing of Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Tommy Robredo.
The result won't always conform with a sense of how close the matches were: A winner of a five-setter in which he dropped two sets in tiebreakers and won the other threesets 6-0 probably would have a higher dominance ratio than a straight-sets win in which each set was decided by a tiebreaker.
David Estrada scores first MLS hat trick of the season in a 3-1 Seattle win over TFC while Sporting KC sets the pace with threestraight wins and will eventually extend that run to seven before losing in April.