{"id":84579,"date":"2025-11-22T05:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/spain-and-germany-advance-to-the-davis-cup-semifinals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:25:04","slug":"spain-and-germany-advance-to-the-davis-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/spain-and-germany-advance-to-the-davis-cup-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Germany advance to the Davis Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"In an exciting day of the Davis Cup, Spain achieved a crucial victory over the Czech Republic, securing their place in the semifinals with a score of 2-1.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Granollers and Mart\u00ednez, Heroes of Spain<\/h2>\n\n\nThe duo formed by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portero won the decisive doubles match, defeating Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik. This triumph was even more significant considering the absence of Carlos Alcaraz, who was forced to withdraw from the Spanish team due to an injury.\n\nThe Spanish duo proved their worth on the court, sealing their place in the semifinals with a score of 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8) at the SuperTennis Arena.\n\n<p>For his part, 20-year-old Jakub Mensik stood out by connecting 20 aces, which allowed him to defeat Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta with a score of 7-5, 6-4, giving the Czech team the initial advantage. However, Jaume Munar responded for Spain, securing his first Davis Cup singles victory by defeating Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n\n\u201cI had a lot of confidence in my tennis. It doesn&#8217;t matter who is in front of me. I had a lot of confidence in myself and that&#8217;s the main thing,\u201d commented Munar after his victory.\n\nSpain will face Germany in the semi-finals, a team that defeated Argentina with the same score of 2-1.\n\n<h2>Germany Advances in an Emotion-Filled Match<\/h2>\n\nIn the match between Germany and Argentina, Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz secured a doubles victory, overcoming Andr\u00e9s Molteni and Horacio Zeballos in a tight third-set tiebreaker. The match concluded with a score of 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10), with both teams squandering match points.\n\nTomas Martin Etcheverry put Argentina in the lead after a match where he connected 23 aces, defeating Jan-Lennard Struff with a score of 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7). However, Alexander Zverev, number 3 in the world, tied the series for Germany by defeating Francisco Cerundolo 6-4, 7-6 (3).\n\nThe Davis Cup Finals in Bologna celebrates its sixth edition in this renewed format, where the champion will be defined in a neutral venue.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting day of the Davis Cup, Spain achieved a crucial victory over the Czech Republic, securing their place in the semifinals with a score of 2-1. Granollers and Mart\u00ednez, Heroes of Spain The duo formed by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portero won the decisive doubles match, defeating Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[8297,2430,3030,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-84579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-davis-cup","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84579","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=84579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}