{"id":903664,"date":"2026-09-21T04:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903664\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:16:15","slug":"zverev-powers-germany-into-davis-cup-final-8-with-swift-win-over-prizmic-britain-also-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903664\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev powers Germany into Davis Cup Final 8 with swift win over Prizmic, Britain also advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLE, Germany \u2014 Alexander Zverev sent Germany through to the Davis Cup Final 8, outclassing Dino Prizmic on Sunday to secure a 3-1 victory over Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev took just 77 minutes to ease to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Prizmic, who was ranked more than 100 places below the U.S. Open and French Open champion.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in Saturday\u2019s victory over Matej Dodig, the second-ranked Zverev dominated on the indoor hardcourt in Halle, Germany, with Prizmic having no break-point chances.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Sunday, Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz overcame Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic 7-5, 6-2 to hand Zverev the opportunity to send Germany to the Final 8 in Bologna, Italy, in November.<\/p>\n<p>Britain also advanced on Sunday, with doubles pair Henry Patten and Neal Skupski beating Gonzalo Escobar and Diego Hidalgo 6-3, 6-4 to secure a 3-0 win over Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, without Carlos Alcaraz, secured an unassailable 3-0 lead over Chile after Pedro Mart\u00ednez and Jaume Munar defeated Tom\u00e1s Barrios Vera and Alejandro Tabilo 6-0, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALLE, Germany \u2014 Alexander Zverev sent Germany through to the Davis Cup Final 8, outclassing Dino Prizmic on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-903664","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\/903664","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=903664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}