{"id":81652,"date":"2025-11-19T02:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/belgium-to-davis-cup-semifinals-bergs-defeats-france-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:09:37","slug":"belgium-to-davis-cup-semifinals-bergs-defeats-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/belgium-to-davis-cup-semifinals-bergs-defeats-france-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium to Davis Cup Semifinals: Bergs Defeats France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Belgium Advances to Davis Cup Semifinals After Defeating France<\/h2>\n\nIn a day full of emotions in Bologna, Italy, Zizou Bergs secured Belgium&#8217;s place in the Davis Cup semifinals. Bergs achieved a crucial victory over Arthur Rinderknech with a score of 6-3, 7-6 (4), establishing an insurmountable 2-0 lead over France.\n\nThis triumph marks a milestone for Belgium, which had previously lost its last four encounters against France, including the 2017 final. Now, the Belgian team is preparing to face Italy or Austria next Friday.\n\nBergs&#8217; victory was sealed with an impressive right-handed shot down the line, demonstrating his dominance on the court.\n\nPreviously, Raphael Collignon gave the first point to Belgium by coming back and defeating Corentin Moutet with a score of 2-6, 7-5, 7-5. The matches at this stage of the competition are decided by the best of three matches, consisting of two singles and one doubles.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was an incredible match.<\/p><cite>Raphael Collignon<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe tournament in Bologna represents the sixth edition of the Davis Cup with the Final 8 format, where the champion is defined in a neutral venue.\n\nSpain, for its part, is affected by the absence of Carlos Alcaraz, who withdrew due to a hamstring injury.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium Advances to Davis Cup Semifinals After Defeating France In a day full of emotions in Bologna, Italy, Zizou Bergs secured Belgium&#8217;s place in the Davis Cup semifinals. Bergs achieved a crucial victory over Arthur Rinderknech with a score of 6-3, 7-6 (4), establishing an insurmountable 2-0 lead over France. This triumph marks a milestone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[5030,8297,684,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-81652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-davis-cup","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}