{"id":297029,"date":"2025-11-20T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:38:13","slug":"flavio-cobollis-dominant-win-sends-italy-to-davis-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297029\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavio Cobolli’s dominant win sends Italy to Davis Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOLOGNA, Italy — Flavio Cobolli<\/a> beat Filip Misolic<\/a> 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday to clinch a 2-0 victory for two-time defending champion Italy over Austria and set up a Davis Cup semifinal against Belgium.<\/p>\n

Cobolli sealed his dominant victory with a service winner after 65 minutes to delight the home crowd.<\/p>\n

The semifinal is scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n

Italy has won 12 straight Davis Cup ties since its last loss, to Canada in the finals group stage in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, Italy’s Matteo Berrettini<\/a> beat Jurij Rodionov<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (4).<\/p>\n

Berrettini was 5-2 down in the second set before coming back with a break in ninth game. He saved three set points against his 177th-ranked opponent in the following game and prevailed in the tiebreaker by converting his first match point.<\/p>\n

Ties are played as a best-of-three matches, so the doubles was not played.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Italy is seeking the third straight title and fourth overall.<\/p>\n

Four-time Grand Slam champion Jannik Sinner<\/a>, who led Italy to titles in 2023 and 2024, opted to sit out the Davis Cup final this season.<\/p>\n

Austria, ranked No. 12, has beaten Italy only once in their previous six encounters — in the 1990 quarterfinals in Vienna, its best result in the team competition.<\/p>\n

The Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna is the sixth edition of the revamped event that has the champion decided at a neutral site.<\/p>\n

No. 1-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, the six-time Grand Slam champion who is coming off a runner-up finish to Sinner at the ATP Finals in Turin on Sunday, withdrew with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Spain will take on the No. 4-seeded Czech Republic and No. 2 Germany will play Argentina in the last two quarterfinals Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOLOGNA, Italy — Flavio Cobolli beat Filip Misolic 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday to clinch a 2-0 victory for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-297029","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\/297029","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=297029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}