{"id":302125,"date":"2025-11-22T20:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302125\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:25:06","slug":"granollers-martinez-help-spain-reach-davis-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302125\/","title":{"rendered":"Granollers, Mart\u00ednez help Spain reach Davis Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOLOGNA, Italy &#8212; Spain reached the Davis Cup final thanks to doubles pair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=698\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcel Granollers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/2623\/pedro-martinez-portero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Mart\u00ednez<\/a>, who defeated Germany&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/2695\/tim-puetz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim P\u00fctz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Krawietz<\/a> 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 Saturday for a 2-1 win in their semifinal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> had kept the Germans&#8217; hopes alive with a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5) win over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaume Munar<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/1590\/pablo-carreno-busta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta<\/a> got Spain off to a winning start against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2337\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan-Lennard Struff<\/a>. Carre\u00f1o Busta saved five consecutive set points in the tiebreaker before beating the German veteran 6-4, 7-6 (6).<\/p>\n<p>But Granollers and Mart\u00ednez shocked P\u00fctz and Krawietz by dealing them just their second Davis Cup loss.<\/p>\n<p>It sent the Spanish team, which was without injured No. 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, back into the final for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will face two-time defending champion Italy, which defeated Belgium on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOLOGNA, Italy &#8212; Spain reached the Davis Cup final thanks to doubles pair Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-302125","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\/302125","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=302125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}