Each morning at the Megasaray Tennis Academy, the sound of Holy Grail by Australian band Hunters & Collectors booms out of Team Australia’s speakers as the players go through their pre-match preparations.

It is perhaps a slightly surprising choice given the song featured on the band’s 1992 album Cut and the Davis Cup Juniors and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors by BNP Paribas Finals is an event for competitors aged 16 and under.

A little digging, however, reveals the reason for the anthem. Viewed as two of the nation’s brightest prospects, Charlie Camus and Hayden Jones travelled to Germany in September with the senior Australia team for the Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals Group Stage.

Dubbed ‘orange boys’, Camus and Jones had the opportunity to mix with and be around the Australia team as they booked their place in the competition’s Final 8, which takes place in Malaga later this month.

Holy Grail features on the playlist which former world No. 1 and Australia Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt plays while on national service, and the song has now been fully adopted by the nation’s junior boys.

"It’s Lleyton’s favourite song,” Camus told itftennis.com. “We were in Germany recently for the Davis Cup and that went pretty well. The boys qualified for Malaga and that’s the song they always play before they go on court.”

Jones, whose sister Emerson is also in Antalya as a member of Australia’s Billie Jean King Cup Juniors team, added: “Hanging around the boys and seeing what it means to play Davis Cup for Australia was so cool.

“We tried to bring a little bit of that here this week. In terms of the music, the Davis Cup team has really good preparation for matches, so we thought why not copy it?”

The final day of round-robin action proved hugely productive for Australia as both teams, boys and girls, recovered from dispiriting results on day two which left their chances of reaching the quarter-finals dangling by a thread.

With the gauntlet laid down, Team Australia rose to the occasion. The girls produced a stunning performance to defeat previously unbeaten Germany, while the boys overpowered top seeds Spain.

Australia’s girls remain in contention to top the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors podium, having progressed from Group C in top spot ahead of Germany. They face Japan in the last eight tomorrow.

Emerson Jones and Lily Taylor were the stars of the show against Germany, chalking up singles wins against Josy Daems and Sonja Zhiyenbayeva respectively, before joining forces in doubles.

Despite taking the opening set 7-6(10), Taylor was forced to retire with a back injury given Germany the point, although Australia still prevailed 2-1.

“I was a little bit worried last night,” said Australia captain Louise Pleming, whose nation have been crowned Billie Jean King Cup Juniors champions on five occasions, most recently in 2011 when their team included a certain Ash Barty.

“But our team was really determined after what happened yesterday. We knew we were playing Germany, possibly the toughest team in our group, so we really had to come out fighting today. We played incredibly well.

“Sometimes I think it is good to have that little scare factor, where you have to work really hard, and tomorrow we simply have to turn up and be physically ready to go.

“It has been great. We have played against lots of different nations and game styles. Germany today were very aggressive and our girls had to weather a storm and neutralise more and work the ball to then attack.

“That is in contrast to Mexico yesterday when we came up against really good clay-courters who kept the ball very high with a lot of spin. We quite often have problems against such countries because we’re not typically great clay-courters, but I’m really happy with where we’re at going forward.”

Australia’s boys also advanced to the quarter-finals, where they meet Brazil, in dramatic fashion. It was not looking promising for the six-time champions after Camus lost the opening singles to Carles Cordoba, but then came a moment of fortune.

US Open boys’ champion Martin Landaluce was a set up in the second singles before retiring due to illness, an act which hauled Australia level in the tie. Camus and Jones then united to great effect in the doubles, dispatching Cordoba and Rafael Segado.

While fully acknowledging the outcome may have been different had Landaluce been able to carry on, the duo were understandably buoyant in the aftermath. They were even more jubilant after the numbers had been crunched and their qualification confirmed.

“I was pretty down last night after we lost to Egypt, we all were,” said Jones. “In fact, I was really devastated. And even after the first singles today, we felt it was going to be tough because Martin has incredible pedigree. In the end, we got over the line. The Lord saved us and I am so excited for the quarter-finals.”

Results

Davis Cup Juniors Finals

Group A 

Spain 1-2 Australia

Egypt 2-1 Mexico

Group B

Great Britain 3-0 India

Italy 0-3 Czech Republic

Group C

Brazil 2-1 France

Morocco 3-0 Paraguay

Group D

USA 0-3 Japan

Türkiye 1-2 Argentina 

Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals 

Group A

United States 3-0 Türkiye

Colombia 2-1 Thailand 

Group B

Serbia 2-1 Japan

Netherlands 3-0 Chile

Group C

Australia 2-1 Germany

Tunisia 3-0 Mexico

Group D

Czech Republic 2-1 Argentina

Spain 3-0 Egypt 

Quarter-finals

Davis Cup Juniors Finals 

Spain v France

USA v Czech Republic

Brazil v Australia

Italy v Japan

Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals 

USA v Germany

Argentina v Serbia

Australia v Japan

Türkiye v Czech Republic 

Full a full breakdown of results and standings, click here