{"id":295946,"date":"2025-11-20T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295946\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:09:07","slug":"granollers-martinez-hold-firm-to-earn-spain-davis-cup-sf-spot-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/295946\/","title":{"rendered":"Granollers\/Martinez hold firm to earn Spain Davis Cup SF spot | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Davis Cup Finals<br \/>\n    Granollers\/Martinez hold firm to earn Spain Davis Cup SF spot<\/p>\n<p>Six-time champion country will face Argentina or Germany in last four<\/p>\n<p>November 20, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/martinez-granollers-davis-cup-finals-2025-thursday.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Martinez and Marcel Granollers seal a crucial Davis Cup doubles victory for Spain on Thursday in Bologna.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tiziana Fabi\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Pedro Martinez and Marcel Granollers seal a crucial Davis Cup doubles victory for Spain on Thursday in Bologna.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p> An experienced Spain team dug deep to oust the young talents of Czechia in a thrilling Davis Cup quarter-final tie on Thursday afternoon in Bologna. <\/p>\n<p> After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jakub-mensik\/m0ni\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakub Mensik<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jaume-munar\/mu94\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaume Munar<\/a> had each earned singles wins for their respective countries to leave the last-eight encounter at 1-1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/marcel-granollers\/g710\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcel Granollers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/pedro-martinez\/mo44\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Martinez<\/a> edged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/tomas-machac\/m0fh\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomas Machac<\/a> and Mensik 7-6(8), 7-6(8) in an enthralling doubles rubber to seal victory for Spain. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Final 4 \ud83d\udd1c<\/p>\n<p>Granollers and Martinez win the tie for Team Spain, outlasting Machac\/Mensik 7-6(8) 7-6(8) to reach the semi-finals! \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@DavisCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#DavisCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RFETenis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RFETenis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WD3ZQwQ9gf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WD3ZQwQ9gf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1991531639097422317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 20, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p> The 39-year-old Granollers, a former No. 1 in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings, and 28-year-old Martinez saved three set points in the first-set tie-break and two set points in the second-set tie-break for their decisive victory. It was finally sealed when #NextGenATP Mensik fired a double fault under pressure at 8\/9 in the second-set tie-break, ensuring Spain advanced to a semi-final clash on Saturday against second seed Germany or Argentina. <\/p>\n<p> The stage had been set for the doubles showdown after 20-year-old Mensik eased past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/pablo-carreno-busta\/cd85\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Carreno Busta<\/a> 7-5, 6-4 in the opening singles rubber, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jaume-munar\/mu94\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaume Munar<\/a> downed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jiri-lehecka\/l0bv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jiri Lehecka<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 to level the tie. A six-time Davis Cup champion, Spain is into the semi-finals for the first time since lifting its most recent title in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davis Cup Finals Granollers\/Martinez hold firm to earn Spain Davis Cup SF spot Six-time champion country will face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-295946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295946","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=295946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}