{"id":155935,"date":"2025-09-14T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155935\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:05:08","slug":"czechia-rallies-past-team-usa-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155935\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechia Rallies Past Team USA \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven teams will book their tickets to this year\u2019s Davis Cup finals, to join defending champion Italy in this Bologna for the eight-team final on November 18 to 23.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the seven ties went this weekend\u2026 home teams are listed first in all  scores.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/USOPEN-610X150-Slide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55316\"  data-\/><\/a>USA 2\u20133 Czechia<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Mensik and Jiri Lehecka delivered a rousing comeback for Czechia on Saturday in Delray Beach, as the pair of rising Czechs rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Americans to reach the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping the doubles, Lehecka took out Taylor Fritz, and Mensik clinched the victory with a 6-1, 6-4 triumph over Frances Tiafoe.<\/p>\n<p>Rajeev, Ram and Austin Krajicek delivered a doubles victory after a significant rain delay to give Team USA the edge on Saturday in Delray Beach, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Americans recorded a 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-4 win over Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took every person sitting here to get this win,\u201d said Ram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords can\u2019t describe it,\u201d added Krajicek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But momentum slid back in favor of Czechia not long after, as Jiri Lehecka took out Taylor Fritz, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to force a deciding rubber in Delray Beach.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday in Florida, the Czechs and the Americans split two singles matches with Jiri Lehe\u010dka defeating Frances Tiafoe in the first rubber while Fritz bounced back to take out Mensik to even things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands 1\u20133 Argentina<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Molteni and Horacio Zeballos clinched the wind for team Argentina against the Dutch with a 6375 win over Sander Arends and Botic van de Zandschulp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Tomas Martin Echeverry and Francisco Cerundolo staked the Argentinian team to a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Australia 0\u20132 Belgium (To be completed Sunday)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raphael Collignon battled through serious cramping issues and eventually upset Alex De Minaur 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to kickstart a day one sweep for Belgium against Australia in Sydney. Zizou Bergs took out Jordan Thompson in the second match, 7-6(4), 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always have great players and this is unbelievable I think for a small country like ours,\u201d said Belgian captain Steve Darcis. \u201cWe have so many players who love to play Davis Cup. For me this is really amazing. We are still very far. Okay it is 2-0 but the way is very long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hungary 2\u20133 Austria<\/p>\n<p>Jurij Rodionov raced past Marton Fucsovics 6-2, 6-1 in a deciding rubber to clinch a spot in the finals for Austria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream,\u201d Rodionov told DavisCup.com. \u201cIt was a really good moment to play the best tennis of my life. I am over the moon and thankful fo the whole team. When we started with a 2-0 lead I didn\u2019t want to play. I wanted the doubles players to win and go home but it is what it is. I\u2019m happy that I made the difference. I\u2019m happy that we can go to Bologna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japan 0\u20134 Germany<\/p>\n<p>three time champion, Germany are on their way back to the finals after blanking Japan.\u00a0 Jan-Lennard Struff got things started with a three set went over Yoshihito Nishioka and Yannick Hanfmann followed with a straight sets victory over Shintaro Mochizuki<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz finished off the sweep in doubles action.<\/p>\n<p>Spain 0\u20132 Denmark (To be completed Sunday)<\/p>\n<p>Denmark\u2019s Elmer Moeller came back from a set down to stun Jaume Munar 2-6 6-1 6-4 to double Denmark\u2019s lead against Spain at the Club de Tenis Puente Romano.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia 1\u20133 France<\/p>\n<p>39th-ranked Corentin Moutet scored two wins on his Davis Cup debut, leading France past Croatia. Moutet\u2019s second victory clinched the tie for the French, as the southpaw took out Marin Cilic, 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarin Cilic is a legend of our sport and I\u2019m really happy to have lived this experience,\u201d said Moutet. \u201cIt was amazing to go through. I couldn\u2019t have dreamed of a better outcome, but I knew I was capable of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven teams will book their tickets to this year\u2019s Davis Cup finals, to join defending champion Italy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-155935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}