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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nZverev leveled Germany with Spain 1-1 after 34-year-old Pablo Carreno Busta denied five set points in the tiebreaker edging 35-year-old German Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 7-6(6) in the opening match of today\u2019s semifinal at SuperTennis Arena in Bologna.<\/p>\n
The winner of the decisive doubles match will win this semifinal and advance to tomorrow\u2019s Davis Cup final against two-time defending champion Italy, which beat Belgium yesterday.<\/p>\n
Hitting heavy forehands, Zverev scored first break blood for 2-1. A backhand winner down the line helped the German back up the break for 3-1.<\/p>\n
A tough-minded Munar drew a forehand error breaking back at 3-all.<\/p>\n
Serving at 5-all, Munar was down 15-30 when he used a sharp serve-and-volley to spark him through a hold for 6-5.<\/p>\n
At that point, Zverev amped up his serve to another level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The German No. 1 slammed aces on four of five serve points, sealing a hold with a wide ace to force the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
Zverev zapped aces in three of the first seven points of the tiebreaker surging to a 5-2 lead. On his first match point, Zverev bumped a backhand winner down the line snatching a one-set lead after 57 minutes of play.<\/p>\n
The former Olympic gold-medal champion served 83 percent pumping seven aces against no double faults in the first set.<\/p>\n
After all that good work, Zverev blinked first scattering a drive as Munar broke at 30 for a 2-1 second-set lead.<\/p>\n
One hour, 23 minutes into the match, Zverev defended his backhand corner diligently then came forward and swept a slick forehand swing volley breaking back for 3-all.<\/p>\n
In the second-set tiebreaker, Zverev missed a forehand to cede the opening break Then Munar scattered four forehand errors in a row as the German went up 4-1.<\/p>\n
Munar saved two match points, including knocking off a high volley to close to 5-6.<\/p>\n
On his third match point, Zverev played the serve and volley hammering a T serve then soaring for a smash to close in one hour, 59 minutes and set up the decisive doubles.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Carreno Busta battled by Struff in a dramatic opening match.<\/p>\n
The 84th-ranked Struff staved off three match points serving at 4-5. Struff slammed a heavy serve to save the first match point, struck a forehand winner to save the second match point and place a volley inside the line to erase the third match point in a fierce hold to level at 5-all.<\/p>\n
When Struff went up 6-1 in the tiebreaker, a third set seemed inevitable, but Carreno Busta had other ideas.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Carreno Busta made a masterful comeback from 1-6 down in the second-set tiebreaker. The veteran Carreno Busta fought off five consecutive set points tearing through seven straight points to seal his 6-4, 7-6(6) triumph over Struff and stake Spain to a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Saturday, November 22, 2025Photo credit: Davis Cup Facebook Doubles will determine a trip to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-299918","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\/299918","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=299918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}