Matosevic led one set to love and two sets to one before going down 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to Di Wu.
Wimbledon quarter-finalist Tomic overcame a second-set blip to beat Ze Zhang 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.
Lleyton Hewitt and Chris Guccione will contest Saturday's doubles rubber against Mao-Xin Gong and Zhe Li.
Melburnian Matosevic, who beat Wu in Caloundra earlier this year and is ranked 263 places higher than him at 141, was disappointed he could not close out his match.
"I was just very nervous out there and I made too many unforced errors," Matosevic said.
"I think I have just got to learn to cope with the moment better in a high intensity environment like Davis Cup.
"I was two sets to one and 1-0 up and had 15-40 and a few break points but I just couldn't do it, I made too many errors today."
Tomic, who at 71 is ranked 311 places higher than Zhang, improved his Davis Cup singles record to 3-0.
Tomic said he played much better at Wimbledon than he did on Friday.
"It was a very good learning experience for me and a lot tougher than I thought it was going to be," he said.
"He played pretty well today, so I am happy that I won it and that it's one-all now.
"I need to improve my concentration for the game on Sunday."
Captain Pat Rafter did not rule out bringing in Hewitt for the reverse singles on Sunday.
"There's a possibility he could play singles, but we have to wait and see how he goes in the doubles tomorrow first," he said.
He joked he would not have taken the job if he had known it was going to be so hard.
"The Chinese players are very disciplined and they are very tough and they make you beat them and I am very impressed with the way they went about it, they did a very good job," Rafter said.
"It was a bit tough for M (Matosevic) and Bernard was very lucky in the end to get through that match, but you have to give a lot of credit to the Chinese boys - I thought they were very, very tough today."
- AAP
Tags: sport, tennis, australia, china First posted July 8, 2011 20:19:00
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