Dudi Sela pulled off one of the most fantastic sports moments in Israel's history yesterday by outlasting Chile's Fernando Gonzalez 4-6, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 7-6 (7), 6-3 to clinch Israel's spot in the next stage of the Davis Cup tournament.

After four sets and over four hours of play, the 5,000 specatators in the Ramat Hasharon tennis stadium sensed something special in the air. At that moment Sela entered his zone. "Something changed in me at the end of the fourth set," the country's number-one tennis player tried to explain.

"Suddenly, I felt I was entering the zone. I was in a world of my own, and I simply didn't pay any attention to what was happening around me. I was just concentrated on my game. I felt so good that I was afraid it would end." He continued, "Because I wanted to stay in the zone at any price I started to play real fast. I didn't wait in between points, which is usually not a good move, but at that stage the only thing on my mind was how to keep my zone, and that was it."