{"id":270216,"date":"2025-11-18T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270216\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:08","slug":"davis-cup-draw-schedule-confirmed-teams-and-how-to-watch-final-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270216\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup draw, schedule, confirmed teams and how to watch Final 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iCTyfe\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p>Italy will bid to defend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/davis-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup<\/a> at the Final 8 tournament in Bologna but will be without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> as they look to complete a hat-trick of titles. <\/p>\n<p>Sinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/davis-cup-score-jannik-sinner-italy-netherlands-b2652871.html\" title=\"Jannik Sinner leads Italy to Davis Cup glory to cap remarkable year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led Italy to a second consecutive Davis Cup<\/a> last year in Malaga but the World No 2 has decided to end his season after defending his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/atp-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Finals<\/a> crown. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> will also be missing the Final 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/carlos-alcaraz-davis-cup-injury-hamstring-b2867241.html\" title=\"\u2018Heartbroken\u2019 Carlos Alcaraz ruled out of Spain\u2019s Davis Cup bid as a result of ATP Finals injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as a result of the hamstring injury<\/a> suffered during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/atp-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Finals<\/a> defeat to Sinner, with the World No 1 \u201cheartbroken\u201d to not be able to help Spain\u2019s bid. <\/p>\n<p>No 3 seeds France take on Belgium on Tuesday before hosts and No 1 seeds Italy face Austria on Wednesday. Spain will open their bid against a talented Czechia side and Germany then take on Argentina to complete the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p>Germany will be led by World No 3 Alexander Zverev, who is the only top-10 singles player remaining in the field after the withdrawals of Italy\u2019s Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti and Spain\u2019s Alcaraz. The winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/davis-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup<\/a> will be crowned during the final on Sunday 23 November. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Davis Cup draw and schedule <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 18th <\/p>\n<p>QF1: France v Belgium, from 3pm GMT <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 19th <\/p>\n<p>QF2: Italy v Austria, from 3pm GMT<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 20th <\/p>\n<p>QF3: Spain v Czechia, from 9am GMT <\/p>\n<p>Thursday 20th <\/p>\n<p>QF4: Argentina v Germany, from 4pm GMT <\/p>\n<p>Friday 21st<\/p>\n<p>SF1: Winner of QF1 vs QF2 <\/p>\n<p>Saturday 22nd<\/p>\n<p>SF2: Winner of QF3 vs QF4<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 23rd <\/p>\n<p>Davis Cup confirmed teams and line-ups<\/p>\n<p>Spain (six-time winners, most recently 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Jaume Munar (36)Pablo Carreno Busta (89)Pedro Martinez (93)Marcel Granollers (6, doubles)Captain: David Ferrer<\/p>\n<p>Italy (three-time winners, most recently 2024)<\/p>\n<p>Flavio Cobolli (22)Lorenzo Sonego (39)Matteo Berrettini (56)Simone Bolelli (13, doubles)Andrea Vavassori (14, doubles)Captain: Filippo Volandri<\/p>\n<p>Germany (three-time winners, most recently 1993)<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Zverev (3)Jan-Lennard Struff (100)Yannick Hanfmann (103)Kevin Krawietz (T11, doubles)Tim Puetz (T11, doubles)Captain: Michael Kohlmann<\/p>\n<p>France (10-time winners, most recently 2017)<\/p>\n<p> Arthur Rinderknech (29)Corentin Moutet (35)Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (59)Benjamin Bonzi (96)Pierre-Hugues Herbert (65, doubles)Captain: Paul-Henri Mathieu<\/p>\n<p>Czechia (three-time winners, most recently 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Jiri Lehecka (17)Jakub Mensik (19)Tomas Machac (32)Vit Kopriva (92)Adam Pavlasek (53, doubles)Captain: Tomas Berdych<\/p>\n<p>Argentina (one-time winners, 2016) <\/p>\n<p>Francisco Cerundolo (21)Tomas Martin Etcheverry (60)Francisco Comesana (61)Horacio Zeballos (7, doubles)Andres Molteni (24, doubles)Captain: Javier Frana<\/p>\n<p>Belgium <\/p>\n<p>Zizou Bergs (40)Raphael Collignon (76) Alexander Blockx (102)Sander Gille (48, doubles)Joran Vliegen (67, doubles)Captain: Steve Darcis<\/p>\n<p>Austria<\/p>\n<p>Filip Misolic (85)Jurij Rodionov (161)Lukas Neumayer (186) Lucas Miedler (27, doubles)Alexander Erler (45, doubles)Captain: Jurgen Melzer<\/p>\n<p>Is the Davis Cup on TV? <\/p>\n<p>In the UK, the Davis Cup will be available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-270216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}