{"id":468370,"date":"2026-02-09T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468370\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:10:07","slug":"germany-breezes-past-peru-croatia-beat-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468370\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany breezes past Peru; Croatia beat Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Germany powered through the first round of <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/davis-cup-britain-beat-norway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Davis Cup<\/a> qualifying on Saturday night with a 4-0 victory over Peru, while Croatia fought past Denmark with a 3-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing national No. 1 Alexander Zverev in Duesseldorf, Germany held an overnight 2-0 lead in the tie thanks to Yannick Hanfmann and Jan-Lennard Struff.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles duo of Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz wrapped up Germany\u2019s spot in round two of qualifying with a 6-0, 2-6, 6-4 over Ignacio Buse and Arklon Huertas del Pino. World No. 196 Justin Engel, aged 18, then defeated Gonzalo Bueno 6-3, 6-7 (4\/7), ret. with the final singles tie not being played.<\/p>\n<p>Dino Prizmic secured the decisive win 7-6 (7\/5), 7-6 (7\/2) against Elmer Moeller as Croatia beat Denmark 3-1. Agencies<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:   <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/davis-cup-britain-beat-norway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Davis Cup: Britain beat Norway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Germany powered through the first round of Davis Cup qualifying on Saturday night with a 4-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6566,6693,5717,85,747],"class_list":["post-468370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-davis-cup","tag-denmark","tag-germany","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468370","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=468370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}