{"id":298638,"date":"2025-11-21T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298638\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:36:07","slug":"spain-tops-czech-republic-to-face-germany-in-davis-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298638\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain tops Czech Republic, to face Germany in Davis Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOLOGNA, Italy — Marcel Granollers<\/a> and Pedro Martinez Portero<\/a> combined to beat Tomas Machac<\/a> and Jakub Mensik<\/a> in the deciding doubles to help Spain rally past Czech Republic and reach the semifinals of the Davis Cup with a 2-1 win on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Granollers and Martinez lifted in the absence of top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, the six-time Grand Slam champion who withdrew from Spain’s team because of a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Spain, which hadn’t reached the semifinals since it won the last of its six Davis Cup titles in 2019, will next face No. 2-seeded Germany, which defeated Argentina 2-1.<\/p>\n

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Kevin Krawietz<\/a> and Tim Puetz<\/a> outlasted Andres Molteni<\/a> and Horacio Zeballos<\/a> in a third-set tiebreaker in the deciding doubles match to give Germany the quarterfinal victory.<\/p>\n

Argentina was trying to win its 100th Davis Cup tie.<\/p>\n

Spain rallies Granollers and Mart\u00ednez clinched the quarterfinal by winning the doubles 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8) at SuperTennis Arena.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Mensik hit 20 aces en route to beating veteran Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta<\/a> 7-5, 6-4 to give the Czech team the lead. Jaume Munar<\/a> subsequently won his first Davis Cup singles for Spain by defeating No. 17 Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n

“I was pretty confident in my tennis,” Munar said. “It doesn’t matter who I have in front of me. I had great confidence in myself and that’s the main thing.”<\/p>\n

The fourth-seeded Czechs were trying to return to the semifinals for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n

Germany hangs on Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> put Argentina ahead after hitting 23 aces to beat Jan-Lennard Struff<\/a> 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7), but No. 3-ranked Alexander Zverev<\/a> leveled it for Germany by defeating No. 21 Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> 6-4, 7-6 (3).<\/p>\n

In the doubles, Krawietz and Puetz rallied to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10), with both teams squandering match points.<\/p>\n

Argentina was aiming to reach the semifinals for the first time since it won the competition in 2016. Germany was a semifinalist last year.<\/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 combined to beat Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik in…\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-298638","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\/298638","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=298638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298638\/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=298638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}