Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic won their reverse singles matches Sunday to put Serbia into the Fed Cup final for the first time with a 3-2 victory over Russia.
Jankovic defeated two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1, 6-4 to give Serbia an insurmountable 3-1 lead in the semifinal.
Ivanovic had put Serbia up 2-1 on the indoor clay court at the Megasport Arena, rallying to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 in the first reverse singles.
Serbia will face defending champion Czech Republic in the final in November.
Jankovic easily won the first set but was broken in her first service game in the second. She then rallied from 3-0 down, winning five consecutive games and closing out the victory on her first match point.
''It's a historic moment for us,'' Jankovic said. ''I cannot even believe that we are in the final. We came a long way and I'm very happy we were able to win this match.''
After Ivanovic dropped the first set, she won 10 consecutive games to go up 4-0 in the third.
''(Pavlyuchenkova) was playing really very, very well,'' Ivanovic said. ''But I'm really happy I managed to get back in the match.''
The two teams split the opening singles Saturday. Jankovic won the first point for Serbia, defeating Pavlyuchenkova, but Kuznetsova downed Ivanovic in the second match.
Pavlyuchenkova later teamed with Elena Vesnina to defeat the Serbian pair of Bojana Janovski and Aleksandra Krunic 6-4, 6-0 in the doubles match.
Serbia had reached the semifinals for the first time and, with the two former top-ranked players, was considered the favorite.
Russia, a four-time champion, had beaten Serbia in all three of their previous meetings, but was without its two top players: Maria Sharapova and Vera Zvonareva.
