{"id":740952,"date":"2026-08-17T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740952\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:02:09","slug":"rafa-jodar-to-lead-spain-against-chile-in-davis-cup-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740952\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafa J\u00f3dar to lead Spain against Chile in Davis Cup playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Rafa J\u00f3dar will make his Davis Cup debut as Spain&#8217;s leading player when they face Chile in the playoff for a place in the final eight in Bologna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The 19-year-old from Legan\u00e9s has risen to 11th in the ATP rankings during a breakthrough season, having been outside the world&#8217;s top 350 a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">He reached the final in Washington three weeks ago before making the semi-finals in Montreal last week, his best result at a Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge honour to represent Spain for the first time. I had the chance to be a sparring partner two years ago in Valencia and it was an incredible experience,&#8221; J\u00f3dar said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine what it&#8217;s going to be like as a player. I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">As Spain will be without the injured Carlos Alcaraz and Alejandro Davidovich, coach David Ferrer has selected Daniel M\u00e9rida, Mart\u00edn Landaluce, Jaume Munar and Pedro Mart\u00ednez in addition to J\u00f3dar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The clash in Santiago will feature two singles matches on Saturday 19 September, followed by doubles and two singles matches the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The winners will qualify directly for the eight-team finals in Bologna from 24 to 29 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafa J\u00f3dar will make his Davis Cup debut as Spain&#8217;s leading player when they face Chile in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[4020,19700,26235,19948,245120,12140,106488,245119,640,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-against","tag-chile","tag-cup","tag-davis","tag-jodar","tag-lead","tag-playoff","tag-rafa","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740952","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=740952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}