{"id":302612,"date":"2025-11-23T23:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:09:10","slug":"italy-retains-davis-cup-with-2-0-win-against-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302612\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy retains Davis Cup with 2-0 win against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov 23, 2025, 02:15 PM ET<\/p>\n

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> were the stars for the Italians without the absent Sinner, both winning their singles matches for 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

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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. No. 8-ranked Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> wasn’t playing either.<\/p>\n

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

Spain was also without its star in top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Sunday’s 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 and clinch the winning point as he has all three times this week. Cobolli dropped his racket to the ground and was lifted in the air by his Italy teammates.<\/p>\n

Italy first won the Davis Cup in 1976 before wins in Malaga in 2023 and 2024. This is the first time it has won on home soil.<\/p>\n

Six-time champion Spain was playing in the title match for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 23, 2025, 02:15 PM ET BOLOGNA, Italy — Italy remains the king of the Davis Cup —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-302612","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\/302612","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=302612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}