{"id":277719,"date":"2025-11-22T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:25:07","slug":"marcel-granollers-and-pedro-martinez-send-spain-to-title-match-at-davis-cup-finals-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277719\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martinez send Spain to title match at Davis Cup Finals | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Match Report<br \/>\n    Granollers\/Martinez send Spain to title match at Davis Cup Finals<\/p>\n<p>Carreno Busta had earlier earned victory for Spain before Germany&#8217;s Zverev levelled the tie<\/p>\n<p>November 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gran-zeb.jpg\" alt=\"Spain's Pedro Martinez and Marcel Granollers celebrate on Saturday in Bologna.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Spain&#8217;s Pedro Martinez and Marcel Granollers celebrate on Saturday in Bologna.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/marcel-granollers\/g710\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcel Granollers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/pedro-martinez\/mo44\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Martinez<\/a> sent Spain to the title match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/davis-cup-finals\/8099\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup Finals<\/a> on Saturday, when they earned a hard-fought 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 deciding doubles rubber win against Germany\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/kevin-krawietz\/kb92\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Krawietz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/tim-puetz\/pc68\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Puetz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-zverev\/z355\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Zverev<\/a> had levelled the tie for Germany in Bologna with a 7-6(2) 7-6(5) victory against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jaume-munar\/mu94\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaume Munar<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/pablo-carreno-busta\/cd85\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Carreno Busta<\/a> had beaten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jan-lennard-struff\/sl28\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan-Lennard Struff<\/a> 6-4 7-6(6) to give Spain the lead.<\/p>\n<p>With the doubles left to decide the semi-final tie, Granollers and Martinez stepped up to send Spain through. They crucially saved one break point when serving for the match at 5-3, 30\/40 in the third set, earning victory on their first match point to spark jubilant scenes of celebration among the Spanish team.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match of the day, Carreno Busta saved five consecutive set points in the second set against Struff, rallying from 1\/6 behind in the tie-break to give his nation the lead after one hour and 46 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763839507_876_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The No. 3 player in the PIF ATP Rankings Zverev clubbed 32 winners, including 13 aces, past Munar but ultimately his victory was in vain. Zverev ends his season holding a 57-25 record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is in its first Davis Cup final since lifting the trophy in 2019. The former champion will play two-time defending champion Italy in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Granollers\/Martinez send Spain to title match at Davis Cup Finals Carreno Busta had earlier earned victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-277719","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\/277719","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=277719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}