{"id":297453,"date":"2025-11-20T17:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297453\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:05:11","slug":"spain-downs-czech-republic-advances-to-davis-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297453\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain downs Czech Republic, advances to Davis Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOLOGNA, Italy — Marcel Granollers<\/a> and Pedro Martinez Portero<\/a> defeated Tomas Machac<\/a> and Jakub Mensik<\/a> in tiebreakers to help Spain – without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> – rally past the Czech Republic and reach the semifinals of the Davis Cup on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz<\/a>, the six-time Grand Slam champion, withdrew this week with a hamstring injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After the teams split the two singles, Granollers and Mart\u00ednez clinched the quarterfinal by winning the doubles 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8) at SuperTennis Arena.<\/p>\n

Spain will face No. 2 Germany or Argentina, which meet in the last quarterfinal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Mensik hit 20 aces en route to beating veteran Pablo Carreno Busta<\/a> 7-5, 6-4, then Jaume Munar<\/a> won his first Davis Cup singles for Spain by defeating No. 17 Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Spain hadn’t reached the semifinals since its sixth title in 2019, while the fourth-seeded Czechs had missed out since 2014.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Italy, seeking a third straight title and fourth overall, faces Belgium in the other semifinal. The Italians are without world No. 2 Jannik Sinner<\/a>, who is resting.<\/p>\n

The Davis Cup Finals in Bologna is the sixth edition of the revamped event that crowns a champion at a neutral site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOLOGNA, Italy — Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martinez Portero defeated Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik in tiebreakers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-297453","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\/297453","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=297453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}