{"id":87608,"date":"2025-11-25T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/granollers-and-martinez-propel-spain-to-the-davis-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:53:37","slug":"granollers-and-martinez-propel-spain-to-the-davis-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/granollers-and-martinez-propel-spain-to-the-davis-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Granollers and Mart\u00ednez propel Spain to the Davis Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOLOGNA, Italy \u2013 Spain qualified for the Davis Cup final thanks to the victory of the doubles duo formed by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez, who defeated the German pair composed of Tim P\u00fctz and Kevin Krawietz, with a score of 6-2, 3-6 and 6-3 on Saturday, thus ensuring a 2-1 victory in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Zverev kept Germany&#8217;s hopes alive with a 7-6 (2) and 7-6 (5) victory over Jaume Munar, after Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta gave Spain a promising start against Jan-Lennard Struff. Carre\u00f1o Busta managed to save five consecutive set points in the tiebreak before defeating the veteran German with a score of 6-4, 7-6 (6).<\/p>\n<p>However, Granollers and Mart\u00ednez surprised P\u00fctz and Krawietz, inflicting only their second defeat in the Davis Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This victory brought the Spanish team, which did not have Carlos Alcaraz, number 1 injured, back to the final for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will face Italy, the defending two-time champion, who defeated Belgium on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOLOGNA, Italy \u2013 Spain qualified for the Davis Cup final thanks to the victory of the doubles duo formed by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez, who defeated the German pair composed of Tim P\u00fctz and Kevin Krawietz, with a score of 6-2, 3-6 and 6-3 on Saturday, thus ensuring a 2-1 victory in the semi-final. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[8297,618,3030,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-87608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-davis-cup","9":"tag-semifinal","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608","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=87608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}