LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) \u2013 Newly crowned US Open champion Alexander Zverev sent Germany into the Davis Cup Final 8 as he eased past Croatia\u2019s \u200bDino Prizmic to secure his side an \u200cunassailable 3-1 lead in Halle on Sunday while Spain also progressed.<\/p>\n
Britain ensured they will be one of the eight nations to compete for the trophy over six days in Bologna in \u200cNovember \u200bas they comfortably beat Ecuador \u20604-0.<\/p>\n
Austria, Canada, South Korea \u2060and the Czech Republic all moved through as they won their qualifiers on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Italy qualified automatically as reigning champions.<\/p>\n
Zverev got the ball rolling for Germany \u200bon Saturday with a straight-sets victory over Matej Dodig but Prizmic levelled the tie by beating Daniel \u2060Altmaier.<\/p>\n
Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz \u2060won Sunday\u2019s doubles for Germany, leaving Zverev \u200bto wrap up the tie with a composed 6-2 \u200b6-4 win against Prizmic.<\/p>\n
Spain were without Carlos Alcaraz \u200cbut that did not matter as they beat Chile 3-0 with fast-rising Rafael Jodar impressing on his debut. Jodar thrashed Cristian Garin on Saturday after Daniel Merida \u2060had edged out Alejandro Tabilo.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s doubles saw Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar breeze past Tabilo and Tomas Barrios Vera in \u2060quick time.<\/p>\n
Britain \u200cwere without the likes of Jack \u2060Draper and Cameron Norrie but still had \u200bfar \u200ctoo much for Ecuador as Toby Samuel \u200band surprise \u2060Wimbledon semi-finalist Arthur Fery won their Saturday singles against Andres Andrade and Alvaro Guillen Meza.<\/p>\n
Henry Patten and Neal Skupski won Sunday\u2019s doubles at the Copper Box in London to send the hosts through.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Martyn HermanEditing \u200bby Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) \u2013 Newly crowned US Open champion Alexander Zverev sent Germany into the Davis Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-903160","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\/903160","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=903160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}