{"id":293920,"date":"2025-11-19T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293920\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:53:09","slug":"bergs-propels-belgium-into-davis-cup-semis-with-win-over-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293920\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergs propels Belgium into Davis Cup semis with win over France"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOLOGNA, Italy — Zizou Bergs<\/a> beat Arthur Rinderknech<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (4) to send Belgium into the Davis Cup semifinals with an unassailable 2-0 lead over 10-time champion France on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Belgium had lost its past four meetings with France, including in the 2017 final. It will face No. 1 Italy or Austria on Friday. The last two quarterfinals will be held Thursday, including No. 2 Germany against Argentina, and Spain against the No. 4-seeded Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

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Bergs was in control throughout and sealed the match with a superb forehand winner down the line.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Raphael Collignon<\/a> rallied past Corentin Moutet<\/a> 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 to give Belgium a 1-0 lead. Ties are played as a best-of-three matches: two singles and one doubles.<\/p>\n

Both nations were back at this stage of the team competition since it was revamped in 2019. The Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna is the sixth edition of the event to have the champion decided at a neutral site.<\/p>\n

Moutet played solid tennis until the 12th game of the second set when he hit two double faults and fluffed an easy point at the net after trying a between-the-legs shot, dropping his serve as Collignon forced a decider.<\/p>\n

A similar scenario unfolded in the third set as Collignon made the decisive break in the final game.<\/p>\n

“It was a crazy match,” Collignon said.<\/p>\n

Spain is without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, who withdrew earlier Tuesday because of a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOLOGNA, Italy — Zizou Bergs beat Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 7-6 (4) to send Belgium into the Davis Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-293920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}