{"id":304088,"date":"2025-11-23T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304088\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:34:08","slug":"italy-retains-davis-cup-with-2-0-win-against-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304088\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy retains Davis Cup with 2-0 win against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOLOGNA, Italy — Italy remains the king of the Davis Cup — and didn’t even need Jannik Sinner<\/a> this time.<\/p>\n

Matteo Berrettini<\/a> and Flavio Cobolli<\/a> both won their singles matches to give the Italians an unassailable 2-0 lead over Spain in Sunday’s final.<\/p>\n

It’s a fourth Davis Cup title for Italy and a third in a row. The last nation to win three straight titles was the United States, which won five in a row from 1968 to 1972.<\/p>\n

The second-ranked Sinner, who led Italy to men’s tennis biggest team trophy the past two years, opted out of playing this week, preferring to prepare for next season instead.<\/p>\n

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Italy didn’t need him, winning all three of its matches 2-0 this week after eliminating Austria in the quarterfinals and Belgium in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

In the final, Berrettini beat Pablo Carreno Busta<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 before Cobolli fought back to beat Jaume Munar<\/a> 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5.<\/p>\n

Spain reached the title match for the first time since 2019 but was also without its star player, top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOLOGNA, Italy — Italy remains the king of the Davis Cup — and didn’t even need Jannik Sinner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-304088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304088","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=304088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}