BOLOGNA, Italy \u2014 Raphael Collignon rallied past Corentin Moutet 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 to give Belgium a 1-0 lead over 10-time champion France in their\u00a0Davis Cup\u00a0quarterfinal Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Both nations are back at this stage of the team competition since it was revamped in 2019. The\u00a0Davis Cup Final 8\u00a0in Bologna is the sixth edition of the event to have the champion decided at a neutral site.<\/p>\n
Moutet played solid tennis until the 12th game of the second set when he hit two double faults and fluffed an easy point at the net after trying a between-the-legs shot, dropping his serve as Collignon forced a decider.<\/p>\n
A similar scenario unfolded in the third set as Collignon made the decisive break in the final game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a crazy match,\u201d Collignon said.<\/p>\n
Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech took on Zizou Bergs in the second singles. Ties are played as a best-of-three matches: two singles and one doubles.<\/p>\n
France has won its last four meetings with Belgium, including in the 2017 final.<\/p>\n
The winner will face either No. 1 Italy or Austria in Friday\u2019s semifinal. The last two quarterfinals will be held Thursday, including No. 2 Germany against Argentina, and Spain against the No. 4-seeded Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
Spain is\u00a0without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, who withdrew earlier Tuesday because of a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOLOGNA, Italy \u2014 Raphael Collignon rallied past Corentin Moutet 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 to give Belgium a 1-0 lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-292622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}