Sep 14, 2025, 05:06 PM ET<\/p>\n
MARBELLA, Spain — Spain rallied from 2-0 down against Denmark on Sunday to win 3-2 and qualify for the Davis Cup Final 8, but there was to be no such comeback for Australia as it lost 3-2 to Belgium.<\/p>\n
Czechia overcame Taylor Fritz<\/a> and the United States on Saturday by fighting back from a match down to win 3-2 in Florida.<\/p>\n Spain, without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, had lost the opening two rubbers and also found itself a set down in the doubles before Jaume Munar<\/a> and Pedro Martinez beat August Holmgren<\/a> and Johannes Ingildsen<\/a> 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 to keep the hosts alive in Marbella.<\/p>\n Martinez also faced match point — which would have sent Denmark through — in the first reverse singles match before seeing out a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (3) win over Holger Rune<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pablo Carreno Busta<\/a> then beat Elmer M\u00f8ller 6-2, 6-3 to steer Spain home from 2-0 down for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n Australia had also rallied from 2-0 down after Alex de Minaur defeated Zizou Bergs<\/a> 6-2, 7-5 to force a decider, following a tense 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-4 victory for Rinky Hijikata<\/a> and Jordan Thompson<\/a> in the doubles against Sander Gille<\/a> and Joran Vliegen<\/a>.<\/p>\n But world no. 91 Raphael Collignon<\/a> backed up his victory over the eighth-ranked De Minaur the previous day by prevailing against Aleksandar Vukic<\/a> 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n Going into the second day at Delray Beach with the tie level at 1-1, United States pair Rajeev Ram<\/a> and Austin Krajicek<\/a> clinched a tight doubles match against Tomas Machac<\/a> and Jakub Mensik<\/a> 7-6 (6), 5-7, 6-4 .<\/p>\n Jiri Lehecka<\/a> then leveled the tie with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory over fifth-ranked Fritz, before Mensik rolled through Frances Tiafoe<\/a> 6-1, 6-4 to seal the tie for the Czechs.<\/p>\n Also Saturday, Argentina, Austria and France joined Germany in securing their place in the Finals in Bologna with wins over the Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia and Japan, respectively.<\/p>\n Two-time defending champion Italy qualifies for the final round in November as host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 14, 2025, 05:06 PM ET MARBELLA, Spain — Spain rallied from 2-0 down against Denmark on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-157127","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\/157127","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=157127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}